A Big NO!

It’s almost a week now since the 2010 Election. It was the first automated election here in the Philippines and that’s why many people looked forward to it. But ever since this automated election was suggested, many people are protesting for they have doubts that this can be more prone to errors and people will be able to cheat easily.

I am also against with this automated election. Considering that I am a programmer, I know how to manipulate a program and I definitely have so many doubts with this and I don’t think that we are indeed ready for this kind of election.

I participated in the 2010 election as an official youth watcher of one of the candidates and I witnessed and just proved that I was right because I saw how the machine produced a wrong output during the testing and sealing held 5 days before the election.

I was really not convinced and that’s why during the election, I took the responsibility to observe everything and everyone in the vicinity. If only they have enough security just like the home security systems provided in each room, then I guess I would have lesser doubts.

I just hope that all declared winners after the election will do their best and perform their responsibilities well for we gave their trust to them in serving our country.