So: first automated elections in the Philippines.

1.  There weren’t enough PCOS machines for everybody.  Apparently, if we Filipinos have to take a vote between choosing for the future or convenience, convenience will have a fighting chance.  (“To hell with the government!  It’s hot and I don’t want to wait,” as voters for convenience would say — which is an assumption.  I waited for my turn, yeh.)  Spend the next coupla years making new (better) ones for the next election?

2.  Elections, automated or not, will always have chaos.  confusion.  clutter.  Just like any election before it, and probably the ones to follow.

3.  It’s easy — intentional or not — to take home one of those Smartmatic pens.  (Not me!)  Know that chain thing they have for pens in the bank?  That’d probably stop that.

4.  YOU WILL SPEND THE NEXT ELECTIONS TRYING TO FIND YOUR PRECINT.  Only because you’ve forgotten all about it the elections before.

5.  About 2.5% of the wimmin in my precint/cluster had d-cups.

Bad governance is like paying for tickets to a hyped-up film — you come in, expecting satisfaction — only to realize that the movie sucks. Here’s hoping for a great future.  (I think I’m paraphrasing someone with the movie metaphor, but I can’t remember right now.)

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