Comelec records over 600,000 voter reactivation requests for 2025 polls

oters register at a Manila shopping mall during a test run in July 2022. — FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — Over 600,000 deactivated voters have applied for reactivation a year before the 2025 midterm elections, said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday.

According to Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco, the reactivation requests are part of the 6.4 million total applications the poll body received a year before the 2025 midterm elections.

“The number of applications we have received has reached 6.4 million.  Of this 6.4 million, 3.3 million is the number of new voters,” Laudiangco said in Filipino at a Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon briefing.

“Of that numer, 2.6 million are really new voters and more than 600,000 asked to be reactivated,” he noted.

Laudiangco said more applications could be expected before the month ends, especially for those persons seeking reactivation.

“We expect that, in the next two weeks that are left for registration, more people will apply as newly registered voters, especially those who have been deactivated,” he said.

Comelec previously extended the deadline for the online application for reactivation from September 7 to 25.

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Meanwhile, Laudiangco reminded the public that the voter’s registration would end on September 30.

“There will no longer be a registry extension. It’s already final because between October 1 to 8 is the filing of certificates of candidacy by senators, party-list representatives, and local government officials and their candidates,” he said.

He also reminded Filipinos overseas to have themselves registered for online voting, noting that only 1.6 million were registered out of the 15 million Filipinos recorded to be in other countries.