This is our final column before the May 13, 2013 mid-term elections comes and we have already exhausted ourselves in giving you the information that you ought to know about what's really the bottom line in this coming polls. As my faithful readers already know, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has only proven to us that they do not go out of their way to ensure a free, orderly and honest elections. While they speak these words, their actions are totally in the reverse.
Supposedly yesterday, the Comelec would have allowed the review of the source code that is supposed to have been brought into the country since Monday. But in truth, there is no longer any material time to do the review and whether you believe it or not, this doesn't augur well for the coming elections on Monday. Earlier, I contemplated on a personal boycott. I have voted in all the elections since I was eligible to vote. But then on the other hand, I decided if I boycotted the polls, I wouldn't be competent to write about the problems that we've been warning you that could happen this Monday. So I would still vote come Monday come hell or high water!
We've already given you all that you need to know about the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) and what it did during the May 2012 polls, that it was used by the shadowy figures to literally "buy" the elections of a certain city or municipality. Our best proof is what happened to the town of Compostela just north of Cebu City where incumbent Mayor Richie Wagas lost to Joel Quiño. The people of Compostela demanded that the ballot boxes be opened right before their eyes. But after a 22-month lull, the Comelec still proclaimed Joel Quiño as the winning mayor.
Mayor Wagas then filed a case in the Regional Trial Court (RTC) and Judge Estela Alma Singco ordered the opening of the ballot boxes and lo and behold, the truth has come out on what really happened in the town of Compostela… that incumbent Mayor Richie Wagas had a wide lead over challenger Joel Quiño. Indeed as the Bible say, the truth shall set us free!
The opening of the ballot boxes of Compostela only proves what we've been saying all along, that the PCOS machines can be used for cheating because the results in Compostela never matched the results of the PCOS machines. So just imagine that the operators behind the PCOS must have made millions from other cities and municipalities who were willing to pay these crooks in order to win the elections. There are other similar situations happening all over the country and it makes you ask the question why did the Comelec agree to purchase those confounded PCOS machines?
No matter how the Comelec refused to have the ballot boxes opened, somehow, by God's grace, this case went to the sala of Judge Singco who had the ballot boxes opened and the truth flew out of these boxes. As we read in Luke 12:3, "For everything that you will say in darkness shall be heard in the light and whatever you whispered in an ear in an inner chamber will be preached on the rooftops." God bless you Judge Singco!
At this point, I would like to act as a defense lawyer and tell the judge, "I rest my case." Indeed, we have given you all the warnings against the PCOS machines and the only consolation left for us come May 13 is that, Filipinos are so devoted to our Immaculate Mother Mary and Monday is the 95th anniversary of the first Fatima Apparitions where the three children, Lucia dos Santos, Jacinta and Francisco Marto saw our Blessed Virgin Mary, describing her as "Brighter than the Sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal glass."
For the next six months, every 13th of the month, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the children asking them to pray the Holy Rosary and on the final apparition on Oct.13, 1917, some 70,000 people witnessed the miracle of the dancing sun. At this point, I urge all of you to please pray the Holy Rosary before you go to your respective polling precincts as it is the only weapon left for us to fight or ward off the evils that imperils our nation.
Meanwhile, I've been hearing some still unverified news reports that the group that calls itself the Teacher's Dignity Coalition (TDC) has threatened to boycott the polls on Monday because their appeal to the Comelec for a special registration for teachers has not been acted upon. If this group succeeds, then chances are, there wouldn't be any teachers manning the polling precincts come election day. Comelec Resolution no.8798 issued last March 16 only allows BEIs no more than 30 minutes to vote.
If the teachers will boycott, there will be chaos. But then isn't this what the communists have always wanted? Indeed we face a grim scenario if all these things happened during election day. Meanwhile, for you who are still undecided as to whom you should be voting for, ask your parish priest, not your politicians because the future of the Catholic Church and your future depends on this elections.
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