Automated Elections on 2010

November 7, 2008 · Filed Under opinion · Comment 

The US Presidential election’s now over… and aside from Obama winning, what left an impact the most here in the Philippines is the fact that they knew the results shortly after the “voting” per se… and this, according to some people here, is because US got sophisticated machines.

So now, there are talks that the government would be spending millions (maybe, even billions) of pesos just to “automate” our elections here.

But, do we really need that now?

How about instead of spending A LOT for machines, just so we’d know who wins what in a snap, why not buy food for the poor… or maybe, why not fix some “classrooms” in public schools… or better yet, why not build a school in the provinces.

Or why not just use the money to provide free medicines for hundreds of people with tuberculosis… so many why nots… for our poor people.

The thing is, politics does not end in elections…but on service to the people… the elections is just a day, man… so why should we spend that much money for something we would do in a day. If we spend the money on people, and on people’s primary needs, it would last more than that.

Wouldnt it be better to spend, say 100 milion sending poor people to college, than to spend it on a machine that would not even guarantee that the votes would not get rigged.

A future versus a day.

Just a thought.

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