EDITORIAL — Asking for a recount

It would seem that some people just cannot accept the results of the previous election.

Just last Monday the PDP-Laban filed a petition seeking for a manual recount of senatorial votes in the recently-concluded midterm elections.

PDP-Laban legal counsel Atty. Israelito Torreon filed the Motion For Leave To File Supplemental Petition for Mandamus with the Supreme Court. He was accompanied by one of their candidates who lost his bid as senator.

“What is essential is that the mandated process under our prevailing election laws be carried out, so that the truth may be known, accountability may be identified and exacted, and public confidence in the electoral process may be restored,” a GMA news report quotes the PDP-Laban as saying.

The PDP-Laban has made claims that three of their losing candidates ought to have made it to the top 12. This means they are saying that there were mistakes made, even as the Commission on Elections has proven in a Random Manual Audit that the accuracy rate was 99.997%.

There is another way of rewording the first sentence of this editorial; it would seem some losers still cannot accept that fact that they lost.

Do they find it so unbelievable that voters don’t want them as senators? Are they so convinced that the public wants them in office so much that there was no way, no way at all that they could have lost? Can they not accept that fact that some sectors of voters have wised up and are now more discerning in their choices for the Senate?

It is worth pointing out that in casting doubt on a system that made some of them lose, they are also casting doubt on the same system that made many of them win. So what gives? How do they reconcile this?

But after all that we have said, asking for a manual recount is well within their right to do. We wish them good luck. They better hope a manual recount, if it will happen, will prove them right and not wrong. Otherwise it will only rub salt into their wounds.