Comelec: New voters’ applications surpass 5-M mark

Comelec chair George Erwin Garcia. —Photo from the official Facebook page of Comelec

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) already processed over 5 million voters’ applications as of Saturday, August 3, less than two months before the voting registration ends.

In a data released by Comelec Chairman George Garcia to the media on Tuesday, the total number of applications reached 5,011,815 where 2,590,813 new voters are female while 2,421,002 are male.

The Comelec registered the highest number of new voters in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) with 833,812 new voters with the National Capital Region coming second with 669,372.

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Meanwhile, Comelec reported that total election registration boards deactivated a total of 5,269,292 voters. Such deletion stemmed from such cases of being sentenced to imprisonment, having committed any crime involving disloyalty to the duly constituted government or crime against national security, failure to vote in two succeeding polls, loss of Filipino Citizenship.

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Meanwhile, 579,720 applications were deleted from the national list of voters for reasons such as death, transfer to another municipality, and double registration.

The voters’ registration will end on September 30. Eligible voters can register at the office of the election officer or satellite registration office in their area from Mondays to Saturdays, including holidays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Applicants need to bring one of the following:

• PhilID
• postal ID
• PWD ID
• student’s ID or library card, signed by the school authority
• senior citizen’s ID
• Land Transportation Office Driver’s License/Student Permit
• National Bureau of Investigation clearance
• Philippine Passport
• Social Security System/Government Service Insurance System or other unified multi-purpose ID
• Integrated Bar of the Philippines ID
• license issued by the Professional Regulatory Commission
• Certificate of Confirmation issued by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples in case of members of ICCs or IPs
• Barangay Identification/Certification with photo
• any other government-issued valid ID