Clerical shmerical..
Call me judgemental but there are certain faces I just can’t trust. Look at Benjamin Abalos. I’ve always wondered how much of what he says through the media translates to moolah, and I don’t mean the meager salary that he gets as Comelec Chairman. Poor soul.
Anyway, he was on Mornings@ANC earlier to say that the extra 100,000 votes posted for two candidates were "just clerical errors" and that the public "should not make a big deal out of it." Right. Maybe there’s not too much fuss cz the candidates involved are relatively good bets. But what if those "clerical errors" were made under the names Victor Wood (I know, I’m picking on him too much already), or some other lame candidate? And what if they discovered the errors too late? Are we just supposed to take things as mere clerical errors? Beyond (or beneath) politics, isn’t the election a serious clerical job?
(People usually ask me why I’m so thin. One: genes. Women in my family are teeny-tiny until around 40]. Two: I lose appetite over the simplest things. Like, for instance, after I saw Abalos on tv, I had to put the block of mozzarella cheese back in the fridge.)
Just another observation from the counting that I watched..
As I’ve said, the election staff in one of the precincts couldn’t care less how close the watchers are to her turf so my myopia didn’t stop me from reading the ballot in her hand. I’d say the voter simply has a penchant for nicknames, or he’s just really too lazy to write. His ballot reads something like, "Kiko, Joker, Trillanes, Chiz, Escudero, Mar Roxas." The silence in the room was a serious yet funny indication that the ballot got everyone confused. I left the place laughing to myself.
