The news yesterday and headline in newspapers today about the withdrawal of TIM from its engagement in the automated election is very disappointing and devastating. Apart from that, COMELEC Chairman Melo expressed that this incident cannot be repaired and the nation has no choice but to return to manual election. Notably, right after the resignation of Abalos and the divulging of the Hello Garci tape, the nation initiated to clean the election process for the purpose of ensuring a clean election. Automated election was found as a solution. Millions of pesos have also been spent for such purpose. However, while election is nearing, more and more problems have started to arise and bother the nation.
Today, the worst problem has bombarded the nation. With the withdrawal of TIM, the 2010 election will be done manually. Such changes has created a doubt, speculations,and political perceptions about the real reason for such event. Many thought that it may have been politically motivated and related it to Cha-Cha while others think that it may have been due to other reasons which I cannot figure out. Although it may be unsafe to conclude that TIM's withdrawal has been caused by political pressures, it is also difficult to think of any reason for a reputable company to just withdraw from a big and important contract such as this one.
Despite any reasons, the withdrawal of TIM corp. from the automated poll is no joke. It did not only put its partner, Smartmatic, in an embarrassing and disadvantage position but also put the COMELEC in a formidable position because of strenuous adjustments that it had to undergo. More significantly it failed the people's hope to have a clean, honest, and credible election on 2010. In going back to manual election, the possibility of fraud and other dirty tricks may likely happen. With this possibility, the Filipino people will continue to suffer from the malicious manipulation of selfish and corrupt dirty politicians. All left is for us to be vigilant and do our part in intelligently casting our votes and hope for the better even if it is almost hopeless.
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Just a follow up: The Comelec is still looking for other options to continue the automated election in 2010. One option they are still looking at is to possibly choose from the past bidders of the automated poll machine, who are still willing to take the place of Smartmatic and TIM. Well, I'm just hoping that everything would be fixed in time. If this would not take place the soonest time possible, then I would have to agree that it can be expected we'll once again do the election manually... Hope not!
ReplyDeleteyeah, they have three options actually. hopefully the COMELEC will make it possible. let's just hope for the best ^-^
ReplyDeletethanks for the hop ^-^