MANILA\u2013Close to 3 million individuals have registered in the recently concluded voters’ registration for the October Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez revealed that initial figures show a total of 2,764,745 applications for registration were filed before the Offices of Election Officers (OECs) nationwide.<\/p>\n
“As of April 29 (not final figures though), there are a total of 2,764,745 registrants nationwide,” he said.<\/p>\n
Jimenez noted that Region IV-A (Calamba, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) has the most number of registrants at 410,397.<\/p>\n
Of the figure, a total of 705,570 are registrants for the SK polls, age ranges from 15-17 years old.<\/p>\n
“The figures are registrants. Some Election Registration Boards (ERBs) are still working so number of ‘approved registrations’ is still moving,” the poll body official explained.<\/p>\n
With this, Jimenez admitted that the figure has exceeded their expectations. “Yes, we expected only about 2.5 million.”<\/p>\n
He attributed the positive response of registrants to the satellite registrations, which were held in barangays.<\/p>\n
“Satellite registrations helped a lot, both in terms of awareness and in actual registration turnout,” Jimenez said.<\/p>\n
He added: “I would give our field offices, officials, and personnel, the lion’s share of the credit for this successful registration period.”<\/p>\n
The nationwide voter registration started last November 7, 2016 and ended on April 29.<\/p>\n
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