Fearless forecasts did happen!

years? Where’s the leadership?

- tation of the 2010 and 2013 national and local elections (NLEs) are the same people behind the controversial AES in 2008 ARMM elections. But Comelec en banc never learned from the non-compliance with RA 9369 and RA 8792 in the said three elections, the same people are still assigned to handle the forthcoming 2016 elections. It will be a never-ending pattern of non-compliance.

Controlling. Non-compliance is just a manifestation of poor control.

In 2019 and 2022 NLEs, some of the incum knows that Comelec’s vision and mission statements are yet to be espoused, especially by those - man Bautista, to wit:

Comelec vision: Independent, empowered and fully modernized institution conducting transparent electoral processes with credible result in strong partnership with election stakeholder.

Comelec mission: We, the guardians of the sovereign will of the Filipino people, in partner- ship with election stakeholders, commit ourselves to conduct free, honest, orderly, peaceful, fully automated and credible elections in order to build strong democratic institutions.

*** With the hacking of the Comelec website on March 27, 2016, Easter Sunday, Comelec should seriously consider the recommendation of former Commissioner Lagman that the election results from the Municipal/City Board of Canvassing in Comelec’s website instead of the data coming from Comelec’s central server. Data from central server passes through several layers after the M/ hackers to change the election results in almost 2,000 canvassing and consolidation servers as compared to one or two central servers.

Here’s an interesting point, NAMFREL’s Dammy Magbual shared that in Indonesia, election results from 600,000 precincts are transmitted directly to a public website! That could be another option that Comelec may consider by transmitting the elections results from 92,500 clustered precincts to a secure public website.