{"id":11189,"date":"2014-05-20T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11189"},"modified":"2014-08-29T00:02:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:02:47","slug":"9m-registered-voters-may-not-vote-in-2016-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/20\/9m-registered-voters-may-not-vote-in-2016-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"9M registered voters may not vote in 2016 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11191\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sixto-brillantes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11191\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sixto-brillantes.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of Sixto Brillantes\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of Sixto Brillantes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manila, Philippines \u00a0\u00a0\u2013Should they fail to update their voters\u2019 records using the biometrics system, 9.6 million registered voters won\u2019t be able to vote in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters who don\u2019t have biometrics are automatically disqualified to vote,\u201d Commission on Elections (Comelec )Chairman Sixto Brillantes\u00a0 said in a report from the Philippine Star.<\/p>\n<p>Brillantes was in Ilocos Norte\u00a0 recently for the voters\u2019 registration launch.<\/p>\n<p>According to Comelec, about 18 percent or 9.6 million voters of the 53 million registered voters in the country don&#8217;t have biometrics.<\/p>\n<p>Brillantes added that all registered voters can still validate their registration at their respective local Comelec offices within the 17-month period, including Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNevermind the new qualified registrants as they will automatically undergo the biometrics process once they register,\u201d Brillantes said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Manila, Philippines \u00a0\u00a0\u2013Should they fail to update their voters\u2019 records using the biometrics system, 9.6 million registered voters won\u2019t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,1],"tags":[3716,3717],"class_list":["post-11189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","tag-comelec","tag-sixto-brillantes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}