A 19-year-old chickboy is a candidate for barangay captain

The barangay and SK elections are over. Yesterday we exercised our rights to suffrage.

I am one of the millions of Filipinos who went out of their home, go to the polling precinct, vote for the candidates, and get a drop of the indelible ink.

Here are the 10 things I personally noticed and experienced during the barangay elections:

• Less crowded rooms and schools compared to national elections; mainly because the election is localized.

• Same as the previous manual polls; names are lost, polling precincts went from here to there, the usual scowl from the voters who can’t vote.

• There is still no systematic way of locating your precinct.

• Can’t we have an election wherein we don’t have to consult computers from PPCRV or Comelec just to locate the right room number or building, where we should vote?

• I consulted a PPCRV table and the person in charge gave me the wrong room number mainly because he searched for the wrong name!

• If you would gather all the candidates in our barangay, from barangay captains to kagawads to Sangguniang Kabataan, they can already create their own barangay! (LOL!)

• One of the candidates for the barangay captain post in our locale is a 19-year-old, chickboy, college undergrad guy! (I should know because he’s my schoolmate when I was still in high school and...hmm???!)

• Based on our 1987 Constitution, anyone who is of legal age (18 years old), could run as a barangay captain. This explains the previous – that’s why he’s qualified.

• A bottled water was given to a watcher. It says Meniral Water.

• Another bottled water was given to another watcher. It says Thank you! Barangay Captain toot-toot!Better not to mention the name. HAHA! 

How about you? Do you noticed something worth sharing?