The ruling Liberal Party is in a serious bind. Regardless of how corrupt the automated voting system has become, the party insists on having an automated presidential election in 2016 at all costs, even without having the corrupt system fixed first. It insists on this precisely because it is in control of the precinct count optical scan or PCOS machine, by means of which Smartmatic and the Commission on Elections rigged the 2010 and 2013 elections, and which makes it certain of “victory,” even without winning any real votes.

But the LP is now, root and branch, buried in corruption, and does not have anyone with acceptable “survey” ratings, which have become the lone loony determinant of who should runor not runin an election. All they have is Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, who once operated all over Mindanao to top the 2004 senatorial elections, but lost badly as vice presidential candidate in the 2010 election, which his standard bearer B. S. Aquino 3rd took, together with his unheralded rival, Jejomar Binay.

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