2010 Philippine Computerized Election

Automating the elections is important for the Philippines to ensure honest and clean results. Some said, it does not always follow. Machines, are programmed by humans. And it is always possible that one dirty hand can manipulate the results altogether. I stopped to think. I have been thinking all along that it would be better to automate than to have all the results go through different hands and get falsified. I have come to the conclusion that in our country, automating the elections is no guarantee. Fact is, we don't have enough time to educate the majority of the voters (they will sell their votes in 2010). Our institutions (i.e., the Comelec) lack credibility. The people knows that some politicians are corrupt, but they'll vote for them all the same. The youth can be a voice, just like in America, but how many are we? For now, nobody knows the answer to our problems.