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Article: Voter registration deserves a revamp!(Education)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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I don’t know if it’s just the eagerness to have my election virginity taken, but I think the number of campaigns that have mushroomed encouraging people to vote is the most encouraging development of this year’s elections.From school-based YouTube virals, to celebrity-endorsed TV commercials, and even those thinly-veiled “Vote in 2010!” posters where the names of the politicians are larger than their message,it seems that our society has been reawakened to the importance of voting. The right to vote is often the only instrument citizens have which can concretely and directly shape our government.That being said, I am also pleased that we have ...