Commission on Election or Correction?

Pissed. That was how I felt when I fled early to the polling precincts on the 2010 national election day, scanned my name eagerly on the voting list and nowhere was it found.  Pissed I was still when today I dropped by the COMELEC Municipal office, accompanied by Liway and Mac, and verified that my name is no longer in the active voters. Reason: Failed to Vote Twice (FVT). I cannot be in peace for I know I just voted in the 2007 Barangay Election. There must be some kind of a mistake, I thought. So I insisted, in my most courteous way, that I did vote during the elections prior to 2010. I think I heard a resistant sigh from the lady officer but the guy who checked on the database for my name was very polite to dig through the piles of papers to check. I was asked the 2nd time by the lady officer if I was sure I voted in 2007. I answered with a firm yes, even recounting who I voted for.  The guy returned with papers and looked for the file labelled with precinct 98a, skimmed through it and found my name. Before my name was my brother Christian Arc's, marked with FVT. Below his name was mine. Across my name were my fingerprints and signature. For crying out loud, I was still able to vote since 2007! Now who said I failed to vote twice?  The lady officer seemed dubious, she asked for the paper to check it herself if I was really able to vote. The guy passed it on and she kept silent for a while there. The last thing I'd ever like to hear her say when she opened her mouth again was to blame me for not coming to report it to her office at once. I thought I'd like to say something in rebuttal but kept myself composed instead. In fact, I told her in my utmost candor that it's not really a big deal for me now and that I could go back when the next registration starts.  At the back of my mind, solid neurotic matters are insisting it was not really my fault that some morons of this office mistook my name for my brother's and took me out of the voters list instead of him. And as if I didn't notice, she defensively backfired at me like it was my fault from the start. I would understand that people are prone to committing mistakes. Fine. But I was waiting for apologies or assentation, if its the most she could give, and failed. Tsk. Perhaps the COMELEC office in Bugallon might have to undergo some customer service workshop and some encoding refresher course. I'm not being self-righteous. Just a dissatisfied (again) public citizen.  I was advised to be updated about my status thru Mac. Let's see if they apply the necessary corrections for the next elections. God bless the Philippines!