We have been given less than three months to register 12 million new voters and validate the registration of old voters -- a total of 37 million souls to be processed. While using the most primitive instruments known to man. Comelec it seems is at it again.
The Inquirer report on the first day of registration, Aug. 4, suggests the scale of the mess the Comelec has made of things. Comelec Metro Manila director Ferdinand Rafanan admitted as much. "We had more registrants than we could manage... Before, we just had to have the application forms filled out, now we have to have the pictures of the registrants taken and their fingerprints and signatures scanned. The two machines assigned to each office (Makati City and Quezon City) were insufficient."