The Commision on Elections (Comelec) is currenly planning to make use of blogs in preparation for the coming elections. Through the Education and Information Department (EID)’s blog , Comelec aims to give updates on the status of the registration of voters, as well as to educate them about the registration process.

“Now that we have the technology available and stable, the Comelec will use the bagongbotante.ph blog website to give voters here and abroad updates about the ongoing registration and at the same time, to gather feedback from voters, especially the youth” said James Jimenez, Comelec spokesman.

Although, it wasn’t mentioned how the Comelec is planning to give their “updates” to the voters (Would it be through individual e-mails? Or a personal status page for each voter? ). The mentioned blog will be providing blog articles, pictures and videos to give voters an idea on how the registration process works, the requirements they need to bring, and what they should do during the registration.

I think it’s great that Comelec is taking a step towards making use of blogs in their plans.  First time voters are usually clueless on what steps to take so they could register, and I bet that this blog will be a great help.

“Since the site can be viewed by anyone with access to the web, this will also be instrumental in updating the .5 million overseas absentee voters, which will vote for national positions in the 2010 elections,” said Jimenez.

I’m really looking forward on how Comelec is going to pull all of their plans off. I really hope, other government offices could follow suit and make use of the power of blogs and the internet for a faster and better service.

[News via Inquirer.net]

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