TWO shocking incidents involving the Commission on Elections in the past 10 days are strong indicators that our being able to participate in a clean, credible election in just under a month’s time is a vain expectation, and that the incumbent Aquino-led Liberal Party regime will stop at nothing to maintain its hold on power.

On April 1, a few days after the Comelec’s public website was hacked by activists demanding the restoration of all security features of the automated voting system – a demand we agree with wholeheartedly, though we must condemn the manner in which it was made – an enormous amount of information, essentially the entire Comelec voter registration database, was stolen and posted on the internet.

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