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Nearly 10.5M voters ‘deactivated, deleted’ for 2022 polls
MANILA – Close to 10.5 million registered voters in the country have been either deactivated or deleted from the list of voters for the May 9 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) reported on Thursday.
Data from the poll body revealed that a total of 7,236,952 deactivated voters and 3,246,262 names have been deleted from the voter’s list.
Of the number, 7,229,493 were deactivated due to their failure to vote in the last two national elections, 3,993 were excluded due to court orders and 2,718 were declared insane or incompetent by authorities.
Also deactivated were 536 voters who were sentenced to more than one-year imprisonment, 134 who failed to validate, 52 who lost their Filipino citizenship; and 26 who were sentenced for committing crimes against national security.
For deleted voters, 1,490,678 voters transferred to another city/municipality; 892,627 were double registrants, and 755,769 already died.
Also deleted are 64,320 with double entries; and 42,868 who applied as overseas voters.
There were a total of 6,950,449 newly registered voters while there were 1,520,500 Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) voters, who have or will turn 18 years old by Election Day, and have been included automatically in the voters’ list.
The country has a total of 65,831,792 registered voters for the forthcoming polls.
Meanwhile, the Comelec – Committee on Local Absentee Voting (CLAV) reported that there are a total of 84,221 approved applications.
The majority of the applicants are members of the Philippine National Police — 48,698; followed by the Philippine Army — 32,786; Philippine Air Force — 4,261; Department of Education — 3,075; and 953 members of the media.
A total of 9,346 applications have been denied.
Those who availed of the LAV will be casting their votes from April 27 to 29. They will be voting for national positions only, one each for president and vice president, 12 senators, and one party-list group.
On the other hand, the poll body also reported that as of 11 a.m. on Thursday, a total of 63,856,233 or 94.68 percent of official ballots have already been printed at the National Printing Office (NPO) in Quezon City.
The Comelec will be printing a total of 67,442,616 to be used in the May elections.
Out of the 17 regions, only the ballots from the National Capital Region have not been completed.
As of Wednesday, 51.02 percent or 3,735,978 ballots have so far been printed, out of the 7,322,361 ballots that need to be printed.
Ferdinand Patinio
Ivan Cris D. Ongco
March 31, 2022 at 10:21 AM
This is very sad news. New York and its govermnent should protect Filipino community dahil hindi na ito normal.
Salazar Hernandez Makmak
March 31, 2022 at 10:25 AM
Okay rin ang gantong screening at vote system policy para maiwasan ang confusion kung saan nanggagaling ang mga boto. May pagkakataon kasi, patay na pero nakakaboto pa. Ung iba naman, may masira lang tuwing eleksyon. Okay ‘to para ma filter talaga ang taong boboto sa 2022, May. Sa ganitong paraan, mapapanatili ang kaayusang politika at karapatan ng bawat isa.
Gian Michael De Polonia
March 31, 2022 at 11:01 AM
And the Games have began… They had so much time to do this in the past Two years or More and they bring it up Now?
Mary Joy Valdevieso
March 31, 2022 at 9:14 PM
There’s a lot of voters that have been deactivated and deleted from the voter’s list. But, on the other hand there’s also a lot of new registered voters that will participate on the coming election day. It’s also a good action of the Comelec to deactivate and delete these voters from the voting list so that they can present the legit amount of the eligible and capable voters here in the Philippines. And also to avoid some misunderstanding and conflicts when it comes to counting of votes. And of course they really need to know the right amount of voters so that they can print out the right amount of ballots. Cause imagine if they didn’t do it 10.5 Million of ballots can be put to waste. I just hope a peaceful and full of determination and honesty during the election day. May this 67 Million voters choose the right leaders that can change and improve the systems of the government for a better future ahead for the Filipinos.