"You won the election, but I won the count." Clever words uttered by Anastasio Somoza Debayle. He was officially the 44th and the 45th leader of Nicaragua. He was the last member of the Somoza family to be President, ending their dynasty who held power since 1936. (Wikipedia) But whatever, that's not what I was trying to dig in. Rather, it was the very clever words he uttered.
What he said was exemplified by our system, at least. Every election period, it is inevitable that we experience different anomalies, from the electioneering period up to the reading of ballots. We always experience those. Most popular probably, is the manipulation of vote counts. It amazes me when a locale, for example, primarily has 900 registered voters. But then again, it turned out that the total number of people who "voted" was 2,000. It is explicitly shown here that from the actual 900 voters, it appears that 1,100 more votes were awarded to a candidate.
Now, who can forget the very popular convo between Commissioner on Elections Virgilio Garcillano and Madame President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "Hello, hello Garci... Will I still lead 1 million?" This was the first statement said by Arroyo which strengthened the allegations on her for rigging the 2004 presidential elections. As of today, after all the brilliant and strong evidences on her, she was not removed from her chair.
And now, we're facing another chance for an immense change, yet with small margin of being successful.
2 comments:
i loooooovve gma's pic.. hahahaha! she's so gorgy! :P
hahaha. i got it from google. :P
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