election 2010
@sonofdaredevil (42)
Philippines
November 8, 2009 11:35am CST
Exercise your right of suffrage but don't let these greedy crocodiles fool you. http://arjie-philippines.blogspot.com.
3 responses
@edujccz (929)
• Philippines
9 Nov 09
Hopefully this time with the computerized election our system will be change, but vote buying we can never stop. I always exercise my right to vote and usually I spent my whole day watching precint during election, its because my wife use to work as poll watchers just in case that a commotion in the precint occur, I am standing by for her. Some precint had experienced vote snatching, the worst was setting it on fire and killing which we all wanted to avoid.
So far everytime I am watching, the voting area is peaceful. Who will win the election is the thing to watch.
@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
10 Nov 09
Yeah I guess my mother was a former public schools teacher that is why every election when I was still young I would accompany her to her precinct and from there she would stay there till the wee hours of the election day as they are still counting manually during those times. Fortunately, the precinct where she is assigned is generally peaceful and there are not problems whatsoever every election.
This coming election would be a very interesting one since the election would be automated already and it means that there is less work in counting the ballots since the machine will be the one to count already. I just hope that it will eliminate the problems of "dagdag bawas" in the counting and hopefully the true leader will emerge from this election.
@earth2jacq (1502)
• Philippines
10 Nov 09
Had Binay did not quit I would have voted for him. Sure he is not charming and I don't leave in Makati, and there are negative issues about but come to think of who among the presidentiables have no negative stories. I would vote for him for the following reasons:
- as I my sister told me (she is a doctor) she has a patient that needs CT Scan, apparently CT Scan costs around Php 8K but since the patient was a resident in Makati he paid only around Php500 in the public hospital of Makati upon presenting his yellow card.
- there is no place in the metropolis where the buses and jeepney are discipline enough to load and unload passengers than in Makati.
Well ofcourse these are only my own musings about one presidentiable.
I do hope that the electronic elections will help cheatings that are so rampant during the elections.
@tokouchi (370)
• Philippines
10 Nov 09
No one can deny that of all the metropolitan areas in the Philippines, Makati is the most progressive. Binay definitely has done so much for the city and people who live there (that i know of) have never once badmouthed about anything Binay has ever done to the city. It's just sad that he's out of the race. He's a better choice than majority of the other candidates we have right now.
