Integrity, credibility, honesty HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 02/17/2010

Integrity, credibility, honesty HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 02/17/2010 Maybe we should hear it from the least popular among the presidential candidates who hit the nail right in its head when he claimed it’s the lack of credibility on the Comelec’s part that may doom its effort to give us a clean and honest elections, an automated one at that. The integrity of the May polls does not lie in the success of the gizmos the Comelec paid for in hundreds of millions of people’s money, but on how well the Comelec can convince the public that the machines it bought to count our votes are not related in any way to the dreaded Garci of 2004. For JC de los Reyes of Ang Kapatiran Party, it’s the “pervasive problem of the absence of confidence in government” that all these talks of a “failure of elections” scenarios keep floating amid the Comelec’s effort to kill the hush by confidently backing its new system, an untested one that, while ducking its head on issues of a credible alternative should the computer system fail.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100217com6.html

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