It is, indeed, like a script from heaven. The elections happened, and there were no grim scenarios that Noynoy volunteers had primed themselves for. Yet, Noynoy won, almost like a walk in the park. Of course, no presidential candidate and vice-presidential candidate has been proclaimed as of this time as I comply with the deadline of my submission of this article.

Just as a cardinal of the Catholic Church called the suggestion of people power as crazy, and then get a sharp retort from the head of a major religious congregation, subsequent developments proved the cardinal as largely out of touch, or worse. The controversial PCOS machines affirmed the worst suspicions when a nationwide testing revealed strong hints of a sinister pattern of the machines spewing out results which were different from what were shaded in the ballots inserted. From documented reports from almost all the areas being tested, many anti-administration candidates did not register any votes while much weaker rivals got all the votes.