Pierce Brosnan elected as ARMM Gov

By bloggers that is.

At a mock balloting held this afternoon at the Commission on Elections, twenty bloggers voted actor Pierce Brosnan for ARMM Regional Governor over mock candidates Kevin Costner, Leonardo di Caprio, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Al Pacino and Sharon Stone.

On the other hand, Vanessa Redgrave won as Regional Vice Governor, beating Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Micheal Jackson, Tom Jones, Jennifer Lopez, Brian McKnight and David Pomeranz.

The bloggers were participants in today’s poll automation demonstration at the poll body’s main office in Manila. The bloggers, mostly students and young professionals, got to see first-hand the automated voting and counting machines that will be used in next month’s automated elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

“We invited bloggers because we believe them to represent a significant part of the general public that wants to be informed about the most recent developments in election automation,” said COMELEC spokesman and education and information chief James Jimenez.

A blogger himself, Jimenez said blogs can be a powerful medium to share knowledge with the electorate, especially the youth. ###