BENJAMIN AZADA
May 9 was probably the first “digital” election in Philippine political history. During the campaign, our Viber and WhatsApp groups kept on goading us to vote for one candidate and not another. Facebook and Twitter feeds became campaign battlegrounds. Friendships were temporarily severed (though hopefully they have re-added each other again by now). And on Election Day itself, people were amazed at how fast the results came in through electronic transmission.