WHEN VOTING BECOMES A COMI-TRAGIC EVENT

What validates an election? The votes. Who files the votes? The voters. Not the middlemen and women -- not the electoral college members. The latter just sift through the ballots to see who has the greater number of yeses and noes. Then vote according to the rules, "supposed to be." 
But should that be the case all the time?

Perhaps when the ancestors of Americans devised the electoral college, it was difficult to consolidate all the ballots as it was a continental problem and transportation was still through horseback riding. And to carry sacks of ballots to one place for counting would have been an enormous task. 

But now that voting is just a click away, the use of the electoral college becomes irrelevant and dangerous in the hands of people who do not value the genuine votes of the people. 

Yet some people want to uphold that antiquated method. You can get a fake or genuine official if that is the case. Thus voting can become a case of both comic and tragic event.

We, in the Philippines, suffered a lot from having a fake president. It just didn't feel right at all when President Erap was deposed. So the chain of command felt giggly. 

I wonder what the US Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force would feel having a president who does not hold the real votes of the people. 

Alas, voting has become a tragic event indeed, not only in the Philippines, but also in the United States and other parts of the world. Cheating in elections has become a way of life. 

And it looks like the EC is some form of legitimized covert untoward behavior to install an unpopular candidate.