Relax, but don’t enjoy it FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/18/2010

Relax, but don’t enjoy it

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/18/2010 Failure of the automated polls in May, despite the denials of the poll body, is more probable than possible, what with an admitted 30 percent going manual, apart from the fact that the machines — all 83,000 of them — have hardly been tested. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has not done this testing, as evidenced by the machine glitches in Hong Kong and probably elsewhere. Still, if a failure of elections comes about, the nation will know of it in say, a maximum of five days, which would be roughly sometime on May 15, give and take a half day. What is likely to come about? Another Edsa that is said being planned by the yellows? A military takeover that would again lead to a people power revolt that the yellows are hoping for, in order for their Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas to take over the reins of government and declare a revolutionary government?... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100418com2.html

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