The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the 10-day nationwide voter registration for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in December will start on July 1.
Comelec chairperson George Garcia urged the public, especially the new voters, to register to be able to participate in the BSKE scheduled on Dec. 1.
“Nationwide, we will reopen voter registration for BSKE (this July). Remember, it was suspended on Sept. 30 because there was a midterm election,” he said. “Those who want to reactivate, transfer registration, register as new voters, they have only 10 days to register.”
Garcia said he expects some one million new voters to register during the 10-day period.
“If our current voters are 68,431,965, let’s say we can register one million in 10 days, we will have 69.5 million voters for BSKE. That is still a very conservative estimate of those who will register in 10 days,” he said in a Philippine News Agency report.
Garcia said there will be no voter registration in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) despite the conduct of the Bangsamoro Parliamentary Election (BPE) in October.
“Registration in the BARMM is suspended. So that those who will vote for BPE are only those voters in the national and local elections. There will be no resumption of voter registration in the BARMM although there will be an election in October.” ||
