'The Political Arena\r'

'A boiling hot international reveal nowadays is the upcoming preferences in the Philippines which get out be conducted on May 10, 2010. The option itself is controversial enough because this time, on that point argon ten chairmanial finishdidates, but what is rattling distinguishable about this election is that this is the starting time time that they volition be having the machine-controlled elections. The Senate Bill No. 2231 states that the automated election system must be employ to ensure transp atomic number 18ncy, accuracy and credibility.As the elections are sketch nearer, more than and more intrigues are appearing. One, and perchance the well-nigh worthy of worry, is the bankruptcy of the PCOS machines.2 simply quintuplet days before the elections, the test of the machines produced wrong results. In the mock elections, in that respect were five votes for a certain candidate, and five votes for another candidate. These ten votes were all(prenominal) cou nted for different candidates.Whether the makers of the machine and the administration, headed by the current president who has been accused of cheating in the inhabit elections, are conniving for this, it remains a mystery. People are worried that in that respect might be a failure of elections, and when this exceeds, the current president stays the president. It has been suggested to rent a parallel counting, meaning that off from the automated counting, in that location allow excessively be manual counting. This proposal was jilted by the Commission on Elections.In the Philippines, there are many different collections and religions. Recently, they eat announced their support recitals. The Iglesia ni Cristo group announced that they will be funding Senator â€Å"Noynoy” Aquino, the son of the late President Cory Aquino (their freshman woman president).3Senator Aquino made a statement saying that the Commission on Elections and then denied their proposal becau se it might open more venues for frauds and protests.4The media, being the primary source for more or less people, definitely plays a big utilization in this event. They continue to publish brush up results, which almost always show that there are only two presidential candidates who are in a troth for the spot. Again, these surveys only show the majority votes in a certain area, but for whatever reason, they nonplus the power to manipulate the voters.Some voters will change their votes because their first choice does not show good results in the surveys post by the media. The media in addition consistently gives updates on the failure of the PCOS machines. Last April 29, 2010, there was an oblige saying that the Office of the President also stood behind the decision of the COMELEC, and this made the citizens interrogate more if there is indeed a connection between the two groups.5There have been legal actions already, as the mentioned resolutions of the Senate to the COMEL EC, but all have been denied. The reason behind this is most probably the connivance of the administration, the COMELEC, and the producers of the PCOS machines. For me, this is an important leave even though it is happening in a different country.This shows us the unclean game of politics, and if it is happening in the Philippines, it can happen to any other country, as long as there are corrupt and power-hungry officials. If their elections push through without failure, we will get to see a innovative era in the Philippines, but if there is a failure of elections, who knows what can happen to their country?Choosing the next leaders of a country should not be interpreted lightly, and amidst the issues happening in their country, there are people still hoping for the best results.Works CitedSenate of the res publica of the Philippines, 13th Congress, Senate Bill No. 2231, automatize Election System, filed March 15, 2006.Noynoy Aquino. http://www.noynoy.ph/v3/index.php.Senate of the Philippines Press sac May 4, 2010.COMELEC Rejects Parallel Manual Count, April 29 2010, Manila Bulletin.\r\n \r\n'