Straight from the Heart

Abduljaman ‘Abs’ A. Damahan

The lost prestige name of COMELEC must restore.

Compact Flash Cards of the total 76,000 would be the cause of aberration set-back on the first automated national polls. COMELEC and Smartmatic-TIM are now under the suspicious of doubt from the electorate who are going to cast their votes on Monday May 10 election day. Since the time of immemorial this Commission is always full of controversies when election fever came into pictures, but, I cannot blame our citizenry and the electorate because the reputation of the Commission is tarnishes by their actuation of performances remain under questioned every election is conducted. We are not totally blame the Commission in their flap, but, how this institution very important to the foundation for democratic system of government supposes this should be a dignified quasi independent branch of public office. Citizenry express their complaints and sentiment COMELEC officials as always tags with bad names, and I hate to say this to the public allegedly, it’s branded KOMOLEK- collect and collect office perceive to be a crooked and corrupted public officials of the Commission. To Chairman Melo under your stewardship save the lost prestige and reputable name of this Commission and clean the doubt from the dirty mind of our politicians and the electorate.

COMELEC and Smartmatic-TIM confirmed today at least 60,000 reconfigures Flash Cards will be delivered to the Precinct Polling Places all over the regions, provinces and municipalities to beat the deadline as required by the Omnibus election laws. COMELEC Commissioner said, the Commission will target at least 70% of the total Precinct Polling Places all over country will have fully automated on May 10 national election, while the 30% of the polling places will go to manual counting due to the signal deficiency problem cause of not having or reaching by the Communication Carrier of our National Telecommunication Company.  With their valid explanation and reasons, I think, this is acceptable by our electorate who will cast their on Monday, May 10, 2010 National poll. With the ratio 70-30 figures of the technical glitches of the Compact Flash Cards Disc still very minimal, if there would be a Hi-tech fraud operator in the automated election of 2010. Independents poll watchdog and IT expert s must be aware of this possible scenario to minimize the election fraud using the advance and Hi-tech gadgets of the modern technologies.

Foreign Tipster: I would like to thanks the foreign friend who relay message to me of about the participation of foreign observers scattered all over the Philippines archipelago, as poll watchdog to the first automated election of this country. He relay also the participation of the foreign media for the full coverage in the conduct of Philippines national poll. He said further “Philippines election is the most awaited events of 2010 fully watch by the global community”. He leaves up message of hope to have clean and honest election and for a peaceful and orderly transition of power on July 1, 2010.

I will cast my on Monday with the grace of God in the hopes; this is a sacred vote is for the cause unity of great republic One Philippines. Whoever will be elected to lead us for the next years? He/she becomes the unification President Lead by example for an inclusive government to all Filipinos regardless who we are of multi-diversity people with different trait and cultures. For progress and development Filipinos must together as one society of the Southeast Asia, once is the number one nation from among neighbors of the Southeast Asia in term of an economic growth.

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