Analysis | The effect of the electoral sabotage is to cast doubt on the electoral process and the integrity of the Comelec itself. The effect of the sabotage strategy against the PPLs was not to undermine the bloc?s political base but to add another cause for making the current presidency illegitimate.
Analysis | By Datu Michael O. Mastura | Media reporters -- more accurately, opinion editors -- are wrong to say that casting of votes or counting of ballots runs afoul in the ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) simply because Muslim-Moro individuals have low literacy rate. What makes such comments most absurd is anti-Moro profiling of their leaders (if not out of discriminatory slant by sheer slur) who are perceived to keep them illiterate or uneducated enough to organize them into so-called ?command votes? constituency.
Analysis | No election has been fair and square. In the recent elections, the outcome has been decided by one's political hold on the Commission on Elections -- and the numerous compromises that powerful election authorities make with the highest bidders to rig the elections.