Problems on voters late registration

I think the problem is with the people who came to register at the last minute. Sorry guys. Plus the COMELEC's problem with the limited number of computers available does not sit well with the last-minute registrants. But as you said, the registration started in 2008 and so I think we all have been given enough time despite the lack of computers. People from different sectors tried to help -- the COMELEC employees are working non-stop, the media has also done its part of reminding people to register, but still there are people who came in the last minute. A change of attitude must be done. But then again, it would take a long long time.

I agree, the registration for new voter started year 2008 until last day of October. I don't get it why they register just now when they know it was started last year. i think because of our attitude we always procastinate. We always assume we have enough time , until we forget about it and now its too late. We call it Filipino Time. We never learn and dettached ourselves with that kind of attitude. If you look at it that is very bad. I don't understand why we are not like that if we are in other country. We are more discipline there, why can we be discipline here?

as for me, its both side. But what really matter most is the attitude of every filipinos, no hard felling guys, but its actually true, i even practice it sometime. But most of the time, I would actually try to do things earlier to eliminate problems in the future.... :)

I'm sure that's typical of all people, no matter where they live. Lots of people put things off to the last minute, then rush to get them done on time. It happens here in the U.S. all the time. I guess I'm not typical in that I like to get things done early so I don't have to worry about them anymore. However, I've pretty much given up on voting. It doesn't seem to matter who we vote for, politicians are pretty much the same, at least here they are. I've only voted once in my life because a candidate came around who seemed to be so very different from the rest and he proved me right.

It is something that Filipinos must change, the last minute attitude and this is a very disappointing culture of the Filipino that I'm not proud of. It is so irritating to see people that are disgusted that they found long lines in the last day of registration, and they find nothing wrong with what they are doing. Please Filipino people, if we want to advance and progress as a nation, we should start change with ourselves and stop blaming other people. I hope the new President can influence the people to have a cultural revolution and urge to eradicate the bad habits of Filipinos.

i think the government has given the people a looonnng time for them to register. the problem is the people's mañana habit, i think. they tend to think they have plenty of time, they told themselves they'll do it later until it's already too late. when i saw the news last night - a girl flailing her registration form to the camera - i was annoyed at her attitude. she told the reporter "i want to vote, let me vote!" in an angry tone. it's like hello! if you really want to vote you should have registered sooner and not on the last day. it has been a year since the government announced the registration and now you're raving at the television?? that mañana habit is really a bad habit to break!

I believe we Filipinos have the habit of putting for tomorrow what we can do for today. From what I remembered, it was as early as April that Comelec has announced that registration is already on-going. Me and my husbad registered in July 2009 and there wasn't as many people as there was during the last days of registration.

I do think that it is on the people's attitude of doing things the last minute. The registration of voters has been ongoing for the past several years and was already intensified last year to accommodate all eligible voters to be registered. A TV station has also started campaigning alongside with Comelec to encourage many to register but I guess the attitude of delaying things still came in. I think Comelec has the right to refuse those trying to register themselves because I think they have given an ample time for them to get registered. After their registration Comelec has still to compile things out and deliver this to their precincts. I think this must also be given time to Comelec too.

Late registration can always be extended for days and weeks, the problem was the errors in the registration, eta rosales have discovered glitch in the computer program, where registered voters of wrong entries have appeared in a registration list, the likes of 600 registrants have appeared to be 100 years of age, GMA 7 have tried to investigate the person but they say they are only 50 years old and not 100, even addresses was not correct. That was found in one precint of Taguig and the country has many precint. The comelec has a lot of work to do, or else if this scheme was another way to cheat then we end up exercising our priviledge but all we knew the cheater is design to win. Just my opinion

I agree with all of you, it's the attitude of us Filipinos who love to come on the last minute. We love to cram, if you know what I mean. If you think about it, even if Comelec has only a few computers for registration, it wouldn't have been a problem if people came in trickles, compared to what happened recently. Those who came only during the last minute shouldn't complain. They were given ample time. Unless they weren't informed earlier...

What else is new to the attitude of Filipino, just rush in when the deadline is about to end. I don't know why people really cling to this bad habit. Registration for election already started in 2008 but I am wondering why they did not mind going to the Comelec ahead of time.

I think the problem is a mixture of both, the people and the system. The combination of both resulted to a very disorderly voters registration. My brother is one of those latecomers. lol. He was always putting it off so it resulted in him registering at the last minute but I somehow feel for him because he fall in line for 9 hours just because the COMELEC office here has one computer for biometrics. I can't really blame COMELEC because I can see they are working their butts off. Not to sound paranoid though, I think that this is somehow link to corruption because if most public official are honest, COMELEC will probably have more budget for computers and other election paraphernalia.

Hello fatherblogger, In this situation, i think there's no way that i would blame comelec for it, they were ready for the registration since last year, and there's no way that it would be there fault because they have inform the public already last year about this. and even if they have a job, they still can make time to vote. regarding your question, yes i agree that: bad attitude of some Filipinos who love to come on the last minute NO doubt about it, we do that to almost every situation when it is almost done.

I would agree, Filipinos really practice the "manyana habit". We know it's not a good practice but most of us still do it. We want our government to change but we don't try our best to do the right thing, simply by registering to vote. And then after the elections most of people will complain with how the president runs the country.

The main reason is attitude. Second is the system. I admit that I did not renew my registration simply because I don't want to spend the entire day waiting for my turn. Cheers!