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Daily Archives: May 17, 2010

Live from cyberspace

“We’re hoping for the best but we’re preparing for the worst.” There’s only so much we can do as newspeople to get ready so I thought to myself that maybe we were all in the same boat of insecurity. We just have to suck it up and face the music when it’s there. We were given fair warning for violence, corruptions and anomalies. I should be, somehow, ready for this.

On the ground: covering the battle of May 10

These little boo-boos, which might have been catastrophic mishaps had the machines not been cooperative on Election Day, were important details we found out two days prior to the elections. While the government was reassuring the public that any problem on Election Day was negligible, the stories we found in Malabon and Navotas reiterated that the possibility of failed automation was very real.

What’s Behind? The 2010 Election Series

TNP brings you What’s Behind? The 2010 Election Series that will profile the incoming leaders of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, as well as the city’s new local executive.