The series of articles regarding Fearless Forecast about the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) non-compliance with AES Law (Episode I) and e-Commerce Law (Episode II) in 2016 elections started to be published here in The Manila Times on December 30, 2015. Those forecasts undeniably happened!

The accuracy of the forecasts was based on the Comelec’s defiance of the principles of management that have long been categorized into four major functions of planning, leading, organizing, and controlling (Mintzberg, 1973; Dimovski &Penger, 2002). And applying those four functions to comply with the Automated Election System (AES) Law or Republic Act (RA) 9369 and e-Commerce Law or RA 8792, would need firm decisions based on the Comelec’s mission, vision and its laid strategic plan.