Good Idea: Put your vote where your mouth is
Everyone mouths off about politics and the need for change, but how many of us are actually registered to vote in the 2010 elections?
My clever friends at NEXUS have launched a 100% Employee Voters Registration Program.
The goal is to allow every eligible voter in the company to register with the Commission on Elections. Every employee is allowed to take a day off to register. That day will not be deducted from their vacation leaves.
Employees who are already registered voters, being responsible citizens, are also entitled to a paid day off.
And then the first fifty employees to submit their official voter registration documents to Human Resources get free tickets to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds starring Brad Pitt, which opens in October.
Brilliant idea using Brad Pitt to encourage voters to register! I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.
You can visit http://www.comelec.gov.ph/findprecinct_/findprecinct.aspx to check if your Comelec voter registration is still active.
Here are the NEXUS guidelines, in case you want to suggest a similar program at your place of work.
Then we can address the big issue: Whom do we vote for?
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
August 20th, 2009 at 03:06
I checked my registration status and it’s deactivated. Magpaparegister ako bukas na bukas din.
August 20th, 2009 at 03:08
We are the only country where the dead are allowed to vote. Case in point:when my cousin went to vote in a public school in 2004,he couldn’t find his name. He knows he is a registered voter,having voted in 1998 presidential elections. He returned to the same precint in 04,and the poll officers told him his name isn’t there. He’s been here all his life! Strangely,the names of his parents (my uncle and aunt,who died in 1998 and 1995, respectively) were there, along with the names of his siblings (my cousins),who have immigrated to other countries in the early 1980s. Talk about absentee voting!
August 20th, 2009 at 13:12
I checked my status– ACTIVE! Woot!
August 22nd, 2009 at 03:51
Additional “Good Idea”.
ELIMINATE POLITICAL DYNASTIES AND CLANS. I think there is enough laws to make it clear that this practice is ILLEGAL. But because it is a highly profitable “family business”,it persists because of Pinoy poverty and gullibility. If you have been elected to ANY OFFICE , ALL your immediate family,2nd and 3rd degree blood relations are BANNED from running for,or getting appointed to ANY public office WHILE YOU ARE IN OFFICE. This is a nation of 90 million people. It is preposterous to insist that all our leaders will come from just one family or clan. What we are looking for is the opportunity to allow ALL people,regardless of financial capability,to be given the chance to run for office based on qualifications; not opportunity for ALL THE MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY OR CLAN to run for office.
CRIMINALIZE the practice of putting a politician’s name on waiting sheds,gyms,bridges,buildings,schools,hospitals,and the like. No matter if they claim that they worked for the release of the funds for the said projects, said projects ARE STILL FUNDED BY THE PUBLIC TAXES. Besides it is totally impossible for politicians to spend their own money for any projects. Penalty:DISMISSAL from office BY THE OMBUDSMAN and penalty equal to the cost of the actual project and IMPRISONMENT OF NOT LESS THAN 20 years.
COLLECT TAXES FROM PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.
They’ve been getting away with their tax-free privileges for so many years to the detriment of PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It is the reason why social inequity persists in this country. Who can afford to send their kids to these numerous private institutions? Only the rich. While these rich schools acquire vast tracts of lands for their lavish “extension” campuses exclusively for their rich students,the average public school kids barely have enough books for merely half the entire classroom of almost 50 kids per room! Think of how many additional public school rooms,desks,or books can be provided by the government if taxes were collected from private catholic schools.(assuming the money isn’t pocketed by the BIR).