The startling efforts that the Aquino Administration devoted to deny the eventual election of Rodrigo Duterte is embellished with shameless lousiness creditable only to a study body government.
Amateurish, blatant and foolishly trademarked, the demolition charges emblazon the seal of the incompetent, if these were any complement at all.
And it would possibly take an idiot with an oversized degree in illogic not to make the connection every time the hand from the residence beside the river.
Not that the conduct of the automated elections was any question at all.
In fact, the talks about cheating, another student body fixture, vanished with the massive throng of crowd frequenting Duterte’s rallies.
For who would, in the right frame of mind, mess with the the brewing discontent of the crowd that has launched a barrage of fire drawing blood and ire defending their mayor.
So cheating the mayor was courting disaster. And yet, somebody has to be in the house when the cleaning starts or else the skeletons in the closet just tumble out.
Talks of Plan B slithered out because beating the mayor by any as venomous as getting bitten by the scourge of a nation.
So when the counting of votes started and the chosen one started to lag, everyone knew she dragged a luggage as heavy as a band of crocs in a yellow cabbie.
And then, by some eagle eyes tracking the turn-out, something just looks and acts funny.
Beginning at 8:00, the lady with a baggage started to amass a uniform number of votes; 40 thousand for every percent of vote returns to be precise.
Had there been no talks about plan B, we’d have settled for it. But like, the gradual lead narrowed every minute that the only possible explanation was a programmed command.
And when somebody pointed out that the lead would end with around 200 thousand, that was it.
Yesterday, the Commission on Elections admitted somebody messed with the harsh codes. Incidentally, after tweaking with the program, the votes started coming.
When talks of a recount surface today, that is because people want to know. And people have the right to know.
If, by a recount, the issue of cheating which has become a burden of the administration gets settled, what is the problem with that?
Oh, well, there indeed is that first sign that somewhere, a recount would expose a cheat.
Maybe that is why they’d use all their strength to stop a recount and be caught with a slip again.
Because when that happens, Aquino would rather wish a coup de etat did him than a coup de grace like cheating.
