Perhaps later I'm going to talk about why I have been -- and will be -- gone for quite a long while, but for now I have a promise to keep: my sample ballot.
Before I get into that, I have a rant.
I know that BPOs and ITOs cannot operate without their staff, but Jesus Christ on a rotten soapbox, why is there much talk that the call center agents being disallowed to go on leave to be able to vote?
A number of call center acquaintances have let me know that their requests for vacation leave to be able to vote have been denied. Why? Because their stupid-ass bosses say that voting is unimportant; the bosses say they aren't going to vote anyway, why should the staff have to; the bosses say that voting is a privilege, not a right
Or whatever nonsense.
You bosses, you forget that your company cannot operate in this country against the law. Preventing a voter from voting is an election offense.
Paging advocacy lawyers. Moolah-making time.
Now to the sample ballot I will prepare for Monday's use.
Some good guides, people: national candidates' profiles (thank you, Plurkistan), iKuwaderno's full list and numbers (comelec.gov.ph was slow today), list of Baguio City candidates.
Here we go.
President
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Choices:
[] P#^&#$&#&-I%#^#$%#^!!! ANYONE EXCEPT Villar, Manuel jr. Bamba for many reasons -- similar to Komikero's, Lila Shahani's, and Tatay Schumey's, et cetera.
Vice-President
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Choices
6. ROXAS, Manuel Araneta
8. YASAY, Perfecto Rivas
Senators
[] 1. ACOSTA, Jr., Nereus Olaivar
[] 5. BAUTISTA, Martin Donato
[] 7. BIAZON, Rozzano Rufino Bunoan
[] 19. GUINGONA, Teofisto III De Lara
[] 20. HONTIVEROS-BARAQUEL, Ana Theresia Hontiveros
[] 23. LACSON, Alexander Ledesma
[] 25. LAO, Yasmin Busran
[] 28. LIM, Danilo Dela Paz
[] 38. OPLE, Susan Vasquez
[] 47. QUERUBIN, Ariel Oliva
[] 51. ROCO, Sonia Malasarte
[] 54. TAMANO, Adel Abbas
District Representative
[] YANGOT, Leandro
Mayor
[] HERNANDEZ, Guillermo
Vice-Mayor
[] DOMALSIN, Carol
Councilors
[] ACOSTA, Voltaire
[] ADUBE, Laurence
[] CARLOS, Richard
[] COSALAN, Isabelo jr.
[] DAOAS, Sonia
[] FANGONON, Fred
[] MARRERO, Joseph
[] OLARTE, Jose jr
[] PADILLA, Narciso
[] TABANDA, Betty Lourdes
[] TABORA-TUASON, Cynthia
[] RONDEZ, Perlita
Party-List Organization
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Choices:
15. A TEACHER
89. ANG LADLAD
58. AKBAYAN
135. CIBAC
Man, this is harder that I thought. I'll get back to this and let you know of any changes.
Regarding the call center employees not being allowed to vote: That doesn't make sense at all! I am not quite sure what the circumstances are here. Were these call center agents not able to vote in advance? Isn't there some labor union here that can step in? Or are these employees more or less on their own? Also: I would be very interested to know who the owners of those call centers are. If they are foreign companies, they should be told by people in their Own country that this is unacceptable.
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