Election 2013, to vote or not to vote....

voting is a right but for me it's an obligation. i still have hope for our country and participating in the elections is one way. i just hate people who complain about the government when they did not vote in the elections.

It is our duty to vote for our country because if we youth do not vote than they did came to the real world that what difficulties we youth are facing right now so by voting we can select the proper candidate so that our country will make good progress.....

Hiya LK, Although I cannot vote in your Elections I would love to be able to vote in ours at the moment I cannot because I have got to fix up my identity card which they are giving me huge problems to get it done so at the moment I just think about who I would vote for. Have already got in mind who I am going to vote for the next time round that´s if they want to fix the problem with my ID Card after all they caused it so they can fix it lol.xxx

Me, i would really always want to practice my right to vote. Even if i only have 4 candidates in mind , i will still vote, Letran.

I will vote because I dont want them to steal my votes, yup politicians steal the votes of those who dont vote. so eventhough I hate the roster of politicians I wont put this right to waste. Before its only us men who are allowed to vote, But women fought for the right to vote. Before only Filipino born people are allowed to vote but now immigrants like me can vote, It is a privilege that I have. Our ancestors fight for the right to vote and we should not waste it. To think of it I hate majority of the mainstream candidate, does that make me a hipster.

Vote..of course..It is our obligation as a citizen. =) Vote wisely. =)

I have not get a full list yet since I seldom am able to hear the platforms of the candidates since I am not able to watch TV during the day or even hear news from radio. When I get home I am either too tired if I happen to chance an interview. So I will maybe deliberate that with my wife when election day is really near. I just hope that our precinct would remain in the same school. But I am definitely planning to vote this coming election as I want to exercise my right to it. It only happens once in every three years so I will try not to miss this one.

I wouldn't be able to vote this year. I don't really think my vote would matter anyways. I think they already have pre-programmed results (with all the things that are happening in our politics). I don't believe in the senate altogether, I think their function is to just get positions to be able to get more money from the country. I'm just tired of all the politics. Have a great mylot experience ahead!

Damned if you vote, damned if you don't, so you might as well..... I am still not decided as of today, like you I am also watching those interviews and shows about the candidates.

Hi, Not going to the polling place on election day is to forgo your right as a citizen of this Old Republic. Maybe some don't realize the privileges of being a registered voter and a holder of a valid COMELEC ID. There are numerous occasions that I came upon somebody who can't even cash out their checks for lack of a government-issued identification card and it is the only time they would rush to the nearest post office to get one. However, a voter's ID speaks more than that. It is an expression of one's inherent right to be called "boss" by the highest leader of land, to make one's opinion heard and make a difference. Abstaining from that exercise is still a right and the best one can do is to go to the polling place and sign his voters registration record, spoil his ballot for the PCOS not to read and go home. Failure to appear for two consecutive elections at one's polling place means cancellation of the name in the list of voters and having to go through the process of registration which is not done every day.

Every election, I just go to there to get a ballot and put lines in them. I do that so that my registration would be always active so I do not have to register again at comelec. But I have to admit that last election, I voted for someone which I thought could really make a change in our country, but I was so wrong. So this coming election, I will go back to what I used to do.

Well, I am Italian, and as perhaps you will have heard on 24 and 25 February, there were elections. I have done my duty going to vote, but the party to whom I gave the vote, trionfatd. In Italy the phenomenon has exploded "Beppe Grillo," which with its movement to five stars, earned third place! Many people, including journalists have predicted an Italy ungovernable. It will be true?

I haven't made up my mind whether I am going to vote this coming elections. If I do, I might be voting for only a few deserving people in the Senate and definitely, I won't be voting for the candidates who are related to those who are currently holding positions. Let's put a stop to these political dynasties. Just imagine a Senate with another Enrile, Estrada, Binay, Aquino and so on. They will have their own time in the future but they still have to prove their worth and not simply on the basis of relationship. However, these very same people are leading the surveys and have the best chances of being elected.

If you have the right to vote.. do it. Thats the reason why all who dont vote, gripe when someone wins. You vote, you can make a difference.

I have only voted once since I first had the right to vote, I refuse to vote, all the parties are hopeless and there are no strong candidates. Our country is in a mess, and I don't believe any party can make a difference, so I don't waste my time and effort into voting.

Our general election is also just around the corner. I never fail in my duty as a patriotic citizen of my country to cast my vote in every elections. Like it or not, it is the duty of every citizens of a country to choose capable politicians to administer their country.

I have decided myself not to re-elect someone who has been there before.mainly because they just wanted to use the senate as their promise land and has not done anything to make the lives of people better.voting for them will just hamper our nation progress.so im voting those who was not in the senate before and hope this time that they could make a big change.

It is never easy for anyone to vote for the right person to govern your country, but it is still a duty every citizen has to take it seriously. Of course in a democracy, it is not just you have a right to vote for your representative, vice president and president, you also have a right not to vote and not subject to pressure from anyone or group. If you still have trouble make up your mind who should deserve your vote in this early campaign period, it is perfectly fine for you to wait for the last moment to cast your vote after some deep thought and analysis. Even if you decide otherwise later, it is also alright to just sit back and watch the outcome of the election from your evening news broadcast without casting your vote.

I have not decided yet who among them will I vote but it's sure I will practice that right. I just hope, that vote of mine will be counted as what it meant to be. As you have said they are all good talkers but once elected, most of them forgets everything they have said.

I will vote Loren.. being a proponent of grabage segregation.. I want her to continue that program and excited to see the end result of her work... I am still on the selection process of choosing the best one...