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It’s finally done! The Filipino people have chosen the next leader of this country.

Yesterday’s election was a tiring one for me. I’ve waited for more than two hours to be able to cast my vote; very different from the last time in which it took only thirty minutes for me to vote. Despite of the long hours of waiting and not to mention the rain, I opted to stay because I don’t want to let my chance pass me by in choosing the next leader of the country.

I’ve waited patiently until my priority number was called and when it’s time for me to vote, the feeling shifted from exhausted to excited and at the same time nervous. The shading part was a bit scary because the oval was too tiny. It didn’t take long for me to vote since I have already had a list of candidates for each position. I was relieved to see a congratulatory note in the pcos machine screen.

I think the only improvement in yesterday’s election was the counting of votes; the rest was….I’d rather not describe it. The major beneficiaries of the automated election are the people in-charge for the counting of ballots because they don’t have to spend sleepless nights trying to manually count the votes of millions of people. As for the part of the politicians, they don’t have to wait far too long to know the result because in just a matter of days the Commission on Election will announce the winners for both national and local positions.

Though there were few violent incidents recorded in some places, overall the election was peaceful and went smoothly. I feel bad for those who were not able to vote because of the turtle like process of voting. The people from the COE must do something about it in the next election because we don’t want to waste another millions of votes, do we?

I wish that for the next election, it will be completely automated – touch screen election. Voters will just have to touch the name of their chosen candidates in the screen and then the result will be delivered automatically to the COMELEC’s server so that at the end of the voting hours, winners will also be declared.

To close this post, to the newly elected president down to the senators, please make this country a better one!

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