Election Automation in 2010

Perhaps all we can say for now is "Dream on...Philippines, Dream on".

As the national election of 2010 is fast-approaching, rumors still up on the air that this election will not going to happen. For Gloria still wants power and her allies want her to stay.

Well, let us all hope that this will never come true.

The law modernizing the elections, Republic Act 9369, was passed on Jan. 23, 2007. It updated and fine-tuned RA 8436, which authorized the Commission on Elections to use an automated system in the 1998 general elections. Eleven years after national hopes for modern elections were enshrined in law, Filipinos are still waiting for poll automation.

See...in our dreams fellow Filipinos.

For eleven long years we are still waiting for this automation to happen we are still hoping until now.

Hope that we could taste for the very first an automated polls this coming 2010. Or should I say...let there be an election this 2010 first, be it automation or not.

"Right to Reply" part 1

The concept of "Right of Reply"....Senate Version

In responsible journalism we can talk and claim that a certain issue is being studied and clearly justified by some respected journalist in television, broadsheets, and in radio.

There is truly nothing wrong with that. Because we offer a place and time for a response on both parties. Each of the side must express and clarify if the certain issue is void or even unclear. That is the sole purpose of this concept. (Right of Reply).

But when this concept is being a subject of "dictation" or "dictating an act" it is unconstitutional per-se. Why? because in a free society especially here in the Philippines "DEMOCRACY" is intact. The highest law of the land strongly states and clearly manifested by the provision that "NO LAW SHOULD BE PASSED ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS".