Fearless Forecasts: 2010 Presidential Elections

Right-clicked from noynoy.com.ph used here for academic purposes
Right-clicked from mannyvillar.com.ph used here for academic purposes

The Department of Journalism is holding automated mock presidential elections among future media practitioners, and, arguably, one of the most articulate sections of the U.P. students, tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, at the lobby outside the auditorium of the U.P. College of Mass Com.

Video exit interviews of the “voters” on their choices and their reasons for voting for their candidate  will be also be conducted.

An original software designed by U.P. Engineering students, members of the student organization, “Unplugged” will be used for the computerized mock polls. Observers say this software is simpler and better than the Smartmattic design (for future reference).

Winners will be proclaimed at a media conference during the CMC Week, on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at 10am at the CMC auditorium, open to all news reporters and representatives of political parties (any prior, unofficial disclosure will be disclaimed by the Department). A discussion on voting preference of the youth will also be held. Join us! It’s open to the public (this is your invite).

(For details, please get in touch with Mae Emmanuel at 920-6852) 

Street scene 4pm today closing hours voters’ registration: crowds look like stranded passengers

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Shot at 4pm today from the street: crowds at voters’ registration spilling into the main road. You could alleviate the suffering of thousands who have been lining up for ten hours by deputizing additional registration personnel;

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you could pull out employees from other sections and units, give them a briefing and deputize them for registration with an overall supervisor and a hotline; hell, you could deputize “contractuals” on an emergency basis

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from the private sector, and be able justify it as urgent and necessitated by the exigencies of the situation, just to ensure that the thousands who are lining up can register….or are you about to tell me that you are willing to cause the disenfranchisement of thousands and thousands of voters just because your registration personnel is too slow too little too late?