Outline of Speech

Introduction of Speech
TOPIC: Voter’s Education for PH Election 2022

I. Attention Device Opener— (personal reference style) Country’s outdated mode of education is
too slow for voters who have long been trained to search every election just for attractions,
shirts, aids, baller IDs, printed posters and selfies from the candidates.
II. Central Idea—Education
III. Specific Purpose—To inform and persuade

Body of Speech
I. First Main Point—Halalan 2022 and the throwback experiences about voter’s education during
the last voting campaigns
A. The history of electoral politics in the Philippines is blighted with cases of foul methods
used by protagonists to win votes.
B. In the case of the Duterte endorsement photos, politicians consciously prioritized
communicating the support of a backer over allowing their own merits to shine through.
C. However, voters cannot, on a consistent basis, be expected to pick the right candidate.
But voters and young citizens can change for what the country’s future holds.

Transitional Statement: Compounding the voter’s lack of free will is lack of information.

II. Second Main Point—A vote from a rich person has the same power as a poor person.
A. Voting provided us the right to speak and the power to decide. It is the single most
effective way to make our voice be heard.
B. . A single vote matters as it leads into ends of two different things: the toxic Filipino
government or our country’s dying democracy.
C. The future lies within the hands of the young filipinos vote.
III. Third Main Point—Voter education can only go so far when it is the entire electoral system that
needs reforming, so that its institutions are better equipped to deal with the reality of extreme
social inequality and the “elite capture” of state power.
A. Beliefs fuel the civil society discourse of "bobotante," which blames the poor and
“ignorant” masses for “bad” electoral outcomes that install corrupt and incompetent
trapos in government.
B. Take again the perspective of the “enlightened” middle class seeking to “educate” the
masses (as if the poor were not politically aware) to vote for candidates with concrete
plans and administrative competencies, and not for “populists” who use “spectacles” to
enchant “the masses.”
C. With the inequities that structure our social reality in mind, the ideology of electoral
politics seems like a sham, used to legitimize a political system that facilitates the legal,
orderly, and intergenerational transfer of power among dynastic elites.

Transitional Statement: Our brawls and cries during this pandemic fueled us not squander this
opportunity to escape from the cycle of vicious politics.
Conclusion: As Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, had once said: “There’s no such
thing as a vote that doesn’t matter. It all matters.”