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thank God cameras are allowed |
So election day is finally here. I woke up at 5 am so I could vote early... well at least that was the original plan. Problem was I didn't know how to get to my polling place at the Bel-Air basketball court. Good thing my friend Wacks, who lives nearby, took pity on me and drove me there after lunch.
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voters ready to vote |
It took me more than 5 hours just to
register last October so not voting is out of the question, even if I line up for another 5 hours to vote, I'd do it. Disenfranchisement is not for me. My friend Yumi waited more than 2 hours to vote in her Quezon City precinct, so I was ready with bottled water, sandwiches, candies just in case.
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no lines at our cluster |
When I got there at 1:30 pm though, there were still a lot of people queuing up, but in clustered group no. 51 where I was listed, they were much more efficient in checking the voters' identification, fingerprinting and feeding the ballot to the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machine. It just took us 5-15 minutes to do the whole thing.
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great job, guys! |
I was frankly shocked. Here I was, gearing up for a long wait and I was done in 15 minutes (I could have finished in 5 minutes but I just had to take pictures of the ballot, lol). Excuse me, is this the Philippines? Wow, kudos to the board of elections inspectors (BEI) of cluster 51--Supervisor Dean Co, Miss Grace, Janice and Peng--you rocked!
Bel-Air Basketball Court
Solar St. cor. Hydra St., Bel-Air Village Makati City
(take Paseo de Roxas, past Gil Puyat go straight, go inside Bel-Air Village down 2 streets and you're there)
5 comments:
yay! you voted! congrats and I am excited to know who our next Pres would be.. when are we going to know tho?is it within the week?!
COMELEC says within 36 hours... but the partial results are being transmitted now that the polls have closed. We'll have some idea when we wake up tomorrow. :)
Swerte mo naman, 3 hours ako pumila pero worth it naman. Panalo si Noynoy! Sana makahabol pa si Mar kay Binay.
gosh Noynoy's the next pres??
anyways, I have an award for you sis (: http://myfingersrtyping.blogspot.com/2010/05/and-award-goes-to.html
Aww, I'm getting all choked up... thanks so much for the award! :)
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