Manual election is what “trapo” really wants

One of the most controversial elections ever happened in the Philippine political history is the Barangay and SK elections last Oct. 25. It is so because the people have already tested the computerized method of elections though at first there was some kind of hitches along the way due to some minor problems in the wireless sending of the result into a database for the instant overall results; but, traditional politicians don’t really like this kind of election method. They still prefer the age-old manual counting of votes.
When you ask common people about the recent barangay and SK elections, most of them would say that it would be best when COMELEC used the computerized method rather than the manual.
Another observation can be noted when politicians are really determined to win the race, they would have to use their money and other available resources just to ensure their win. And the disadvantage of this kind of scheme is that it overwhelmingly surface the real power of money rather than the real power of the vote; and the real power of vote emanates from a singular power of one individual---this is the real election!
It would seem, however, that my country is undergoing a negative form of transformation from modern-day back to the old way of politics when people only recognize those with money and they would prefer to cling to these people rather than to stand up by their own principles.
Just as I believe that poverty is the very cause of our own deterioration, I do also believe that as many people are believing that their government is corrupt and they can’t do otherwise to avert it, the more that they become corrupt. Just as long as leaders in the government are known to be corrupt, people also remains corrupt. And the only cleansing instance would be anarchy, or when people choose to die for their own foolishness.
In a democracy like the Philippines, when people would choose that which are beneficial for their own lives and do not recognize the good values that their community can bring for all, a point of reckoning would come when they would just have to live life and let chances chart their own destiny---a gamble that only money can only make it up as well.
This self-destructive view is what would seem to be prevailing in the midst of many challenges that face our country today. It seems that we are not far from experiencing lawlessness because people who are supposed to uphold the rule of law are the ones exposing themselves breaking the law. Thus, lawmaker are lawbreakers themselves; or they would just have to prevent their own selves from observing the same.
I just want that the light of hope will rise at the shores of disbelief when every one is an active participant to either success or failure.