THE C CIRCLE

The 2010 election in the Philippines was a success if we are going to talk about the integrity of the whole electoral process. The automation helped a lot in bringing back the trust of the majority of the Filipinos in COMELEC (Commission on Election).

Although some violence related incidents were still there, I could say that the 2010 election in the Philippines in general proved to be the cleanest among the elections I witnessed in my entire life. As technology advances, so did the way we do the recent election. COMELEC employed the power and convenience that automation promised to deliver to the electoral process.

The line up of the presidential aspirants was very exciting - a former president, a son of the former president, several senators, a secretary of national defense, a church leader, and at least two newbies in the arena.

Each one of them tried to best out each other from campaign sorties to commercial advertisements in print and in media. Filipinos heard different jingles each with stories to tell. Several of them did boast of being poor during their childhood days as if it is one of the requirements of becoming a good president. They gave Filipinos a good entertainment!

It only took me 3 minutes to complete my voting and I spent the rest of May 10, 2010 at home watching the news on TV and waited for the names of the winners to be announced.

Although my bet did not win, I am still happy knowing that in this 2010 election in the Philippines, I was a part of it.

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