Misnomer.

To say that the recent automated polls was a success would be to make hasty generalizations.

In a recent press conference, presidential candidate Maria Consuela "Jamby" Madrigal, along with other presidentiables Nicanor "Nicky" Perlas and John Carlo "JC" Delos Reyes expressed skepticism at the veracity of the automated counting process. Why wouldn't they, right? Forget the fact that the bottom-feeders were the ones who showered the airwaves with doubt about how the votes were tallied. What one must remember is the fact that the COMELEC has, indeed, had shortcomings with regards to totally safeguarding the polling process. Why not random manual audit prior to May 10th? Why no media-covered inspection of the CF cards? Why no ballot sensitivity testing prior to the elections?

Call it whatever you want. I prefer to call it carelessness, and, in a sense, the mighty hand of Malacanang slowing things down.

What happens if we discover inadequacies in the configuration of the over 76,000 CF cards distributed to the country's various precincts? Do we have an automated recount? Do we have a manual recount? Do we all go hang ourselves?

It might be a moot point to even consider the final option, because for all we know, we may be on a leash and dangling from trees already, given this government's failure to do forward thinking.