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Election law & election campaigns, The President, tweets

#Halalan2016 #Eleksyon2016 No stat significant move: Dut 33% Mar 22% Grace 21% Binay 17%

     As they were.

     Status quo:

     All presidential bets held on to their ratings from last week as there is no statistically significant movement in the numbers compared to last week’s survey by Pulse Asia, with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5%, as follows:

      Pulse Asia presidential survey commissioned by ABS-CBN Apr. 26-29,   4,000 respondents, margin of error of plus or minus 1.5% (source of figures: ABS-CBN News)

 Duterte 33% (exactly the same as last week’s ratings)

Mar 22% (from last week’s 20%, statistically insignificant movement)

Grace 21% (from last week’s 22%, statistically insignificant movement)

Binay 17% (from last week’s 18%, statistically insignificant movement)

Undecided : About 4% (with a range of 2.5% to 5.5%)

     In one week of full-blast propaganda blaring from all sides in all media, from the “anti-Duterte” practitioners and the Duterte defenders: The survey shows:  people are holding fast to… whatever it is they are holding fast.

    Ok, let me rephrase that: People are holding fast to whatever it is they believe in.

     Are the “Undecided” enough in numbers to turn the tide? Their numbers are 4% with a high of 5.5%. These numbers will fragment four directions, but even in the statistically improbable event that they bunch up in one candidate below, would that be enough?  — do the math.

    (Hindi nga enough, pag-isipan mo yan, hwag matagal mag-isip, 120 hours na lang). 

     In the previous post published the other day, here was the closing : “xxx (T)he swing, if any, with less than one week, will adjust only within its level of political consciousness. (barring massive cheating). ” 

     Actually,

i just want to recite my Yeats

Amid the ongoing noise and haste 

            The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. 

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
xxx
                   – William Butler Yeats

 

Election law & election campaigns, News

#Halalan2016 #PiliPinas @WordPressdotcom #Challenge Obstacles @COMELEC precinct-finder still down @jabjimenez

WordPress Discovery Challenge: Obstacles 

   The Comelec website  ( comelec.gov.ph ) is still down. And with it, the Precinct Finder is also down.

     More than 7 million voters in the presidential elections  eleven days from now are first-time voters. They’ve never set foot inside a voting precinct.

  They turned 18 years old in the period June, 2013 to October, 2015 and registered in that period for the first time.  Thankfully there is a precinct-finder, thanklessly it is down. The Comelec chair said that the Comelec website will not be opened because “it is still unsafe” (“Comelec website still down, unsafe –Chairman” GMA News online, Apr. 27).

    99.9 per cent of our students in the University are first-time voters. As part of our civic duty, i gave the optional assignment next week that they could use the first 15 minutes of classes to go online and locate their precinct thru the Precinct-Finder of the Comelec website.

   A student said it was down, and another student asked, what if it’s down for the entire week, how will we locate our voting precinct? (he’s 18). And i gave a feeble: “your voting precinct is most probably in the schoolhouse nearest where you live…locate the nearest schoolhouse… through…uhmm, by using…google maps…”      

       And that’s my “WordPress Discovery Challenge: Obstacles” post — Comelec officials were traumatized by the hacking, the Comelec chair said the Comelec website was still unsafe, therefore they have not opened it,  there is no Precinct-Finder, 7 million first-time voters will have to rely on…google maps… Waze… a compass… stargazers… wind vanes… crystal balls… tea leaves…

        (they’ll probably ask their mom… but we want our students to be independent 🙂  )

      Obstacles at: 

Obstacles