The Commission on Election (COMELEC) is an agency of the government which obviously has less work if not for the election years. They have less clients comparatively becuase not all the people of the Philippines are interested to be candidates although they are tasked to vote for the right guys among the candidates. Unlike other government agencies that have continuing concerns to address and monitor,COMELEC has only voters' registration to keep up,verify and correct. In election times they are busy with the candidates alone and the unending complaints of the opposing camps from the national down to the local levels. At other times, they're just fine.However, with that "HELLO GARCI..." scandal that made an international issue some years back the commission has suffered more cynical comments from the people.Too bad.
They upgaraded their voters' registry and made it accessible on-line. Great! The COMELEC had been persuading the electorate to move early and verify their voter information in order that they know their respective precincts in the May 10, 2010 election.
No, we didn’t need to go back to our hometowns in order to do this. The COMELEC now goes hi-tech. All we need to do is go to the nearest internet station and click on this website: www.comelec.gov.ph. As the site appears, scroll the page down until you find the icon entitled: on-line precinct finder. Click on that icon. After about 2 minutes a set of required questions will appear on your computer screen and will require you to give the following data: First Name, Middle Name, Surname, and your Date of Birth.
Within a minute, the site will give you the following: (1) your precinct number, (2) the name of the school where the precinct is located, and (3) the name of the barangay where the school is located. The procedure is so easy to undertake. Within 10 minutes upon entering the internet station, I was able to know my voting precinct and that of my two (2) daughters. My husband’s name, however, was missing. And the site advised that in such a case, he needs to follow it up with the COMELEC registrar concerned and have his registration checked.
That’s good… in fact it’s very good. People will be saving much time in voting because they don’t have to jostle their way to the registry to seek out their name and ask for a ballot. Somehow the Commission on Election (COMELEC) has regained the electorates’ admiration because of this.
Woe! That was several weeks ago though. The COMELEC is now in another trouble… The Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) issue is a hot topic in coffee shops, barber shops and beauty parlors, and even in the market. COMELEC! When will this agency learn? Now you have all the doubts as well as the ire of most Filipino people.
They upgaraded their voters' registry and made it accessible on-line. Great! The COMELEC had been persuading the electorate to move early and verify their voter information in order that they know their respective precincts in the May 10, 2010 election.
No, we didn’t need to go back to our hometowns in order to do this. The COMELEC now goes hi-tech. All we need to do is go to the nearest internet station and click on this website: www.comelec.gov.ph. As the site appears, scroll the page down until you find the icon entitled: on-line precinct finder. Click on that icon. After about 2 minutes a set of required questions will appear on your computer screen and will require you to give the following data: First Name, Middle Name, Surname, and your Date of Birth.
Within a minute, the site will give you the following: (1) your precinct number, (2) the name of the school where the precinct is located, and (3) the name of the barangay where the school is located. The procedure is so easy to undertake. Within 10 minutes upon entering the internet station, I was able to know my voting precinct and that of my two (2) daughters. My husband’s name, however, was missing. And the site advised that in such a case, he needs to follow it up with the COMELEC registrar concerned and have his registration checked.
That’s good… in fact it’s very good. People will be saving much time in voting because they don’t have to jostle their way to the registry to seek out their name and ask for a ballot. Somehow the Commission on Election (COMELEC) has regained the electorates’ admiration because of this.
Woe! That was several weeks ago though. The COMELEC is now in another trouble… The Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) issue is a hot topic in coffee shops, barber shops and beauty parlors, and even in the market. COMELEC! When will this agency learn? Now you have all the doubts as well as the ire of most Filipino people.
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