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Congratulations NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 05/12/2010

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Congratulations



NO HOLDS BARRED
Armida Siguion-Reyna
05/12/2010

As it turned out, the first automated election process wasn’t as bad as expected. Not perfect, for there were glitches: PCOS machines either just suddenly stopping or not at all working; Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) who had no idea how to work the danged machines; volunteers confusing more than clarifying; disenfranchised voters with names all along on the Supplemental List of Voters that very few BEIs knew about — horror stories a-plenty, from Batanes to Jolo, to all over the world for overseas absentee voters such as my three grandchildren, none of whom received their voting packets in the US.

The most wondrous aspect of it was knowing the likely winners shortly before midnight of election day. It’s still no way as fast as Barack Obama finding out he won in the US in 2008, but remembering how the count of our last presidential elections stretched long enough for Gloria Arroyo to call up Garci, heck: This one was a piece of cake.
It ain’t over yet, but even as I write new information comes in, this is how fast it’s going. Gloria Arroyo’s men appear to have been summarily rejected by the electorate, in their respective bailiwicks. Former Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita lost the congressional seat he once held in the first district of Batangas, to Tomas Apacible. Former congressman, Justice secretary and premier Arroyo apologist Raul Gonzalez, is not going to make it as Iloilo City mayor, against Jed Mabilog. 

Also still another former solicitor-general, former Justice secretary and rumored wannabe Supreme Court justice Agnes Devanadera, running with 66,315 votes against Wilfredo Enverga’s 88,080, for congressman in the first district of Quezon. Also emerging as talunans in their respective runs are former Armed Forces chief and also of Garci name-drop fame Hermogenes Esperon and former Agriculture Undersecretary Joc-joc Bolante. What can I say, but since you all put Mrs. Arroyo ahead of country, buti nga!.... MORE  

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