Vote for Jesse Robredo as 2010 WORLD MAYOR

please click his pix

You are invited to vote, from the list of finalists below, for the mayor you believe most worthy of the title World Mayor 2010 and comment on his/her achievements but also, if you wish, on his/her shortcomings. Please comment, in English, on why the mayor you voted for deserves to win the World Mayor Award.

click the link to vote…

http://www.worldmayor.com/contest_2010/world-mayor-2010-nominations.html#Anchor-Asia-47857

Registering for My Right of Suffrage

No one can’t stop me now, not even the long hours of waiting for the van to arrive to bring me back to Goa with me carrying Tiramisu and laptop on my shoulders, not even my mother who tried to stop me to register for tonight(October 31, 2009) because its already late night and too dangerous, not even my sisters who doesn’t even have the initiative to accompany me for tonight… Nothing can’t stop me, nothing really. I will exercise my right of suffrage. I will register to have it.

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Took hold of my right up to the last date.

At COMELEC

I am no Kris Aquino, Richard, Raymond nor Ruffa Gutierrez who took “singit” upon registering at COMELEC. I choose to take the long queue for me to be registered. I choose fairness and equality. It was more than 3 hours waiting but the waiting is ok. Aileen was there and we did lots of things to keep ourselves occupied, not boring and whatever. And it turned out too that what we did was a blessing to other registrants. They too weren’t bored. I don’t deserve to go beyond my breaking point, cause I am a last minute registrant. So what I need  is a lot of patience. And thank God I was able to have some. It was a wonderful feeling finishing the whole thing. Sa wakas makaboto na ako. Yehey!!!

BTW, I have copied some provisions about Suffrage from the Philippine Constitution of 1987 for some who  might need to view it. Here is it. Paregister ka na rin sa next registration if you are already qualified

ARTICLE V
SUFFRAGE

Section 1. Suffrage may be exercised by all citizens of the Philippines, not otherwise disqualified by law, who are

• at least eighteen years of age,
• and who shall have resided in the Philippines for at least one year
• and in the place wherein they propose to vote, for at least six months immediately preceding the election.

No literacy, property, or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage.

Section 2. The Congress shall provide a system for securing the secrecy and sanctity of the ballot as well as a system for absentee voting by qualified Filipinos abroad.

The Congress shall also design a procedure for the disabled and the illiterates to vote without the assistance of other persons. Until then, they shall be allowed to vote under existing laws and such rules as the Commission on Elections may promulgate to protect the secrecy of the ballot.

It is an incredible feeling, like falling in love.

-Desmond Tutu (1931 - )

South African clergyman and civil rights activist.
Referring to voting in the first multiracial elections in South Africa.

The Independent (London)

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Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam