{"id":143675,"date":"2018-01-04T02:49:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T07:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143675"},"modified":"2018-01-04T02:49:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T07:49:23","slug":"preparations-for-2018-barangay-sk-polls-on-time-comelec-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/04\/preparations-for-2018-barangay-sk-polls-on-time-comelec-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparations for 2018 barangay, SK polls on time: Comelec exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107267\" style=\"width: 4272px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107267\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\" alt=\"The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday assured preparations for the May 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections are on time. (Photo by Elmer B. Domingo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg 4272w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday assured preparations for the May 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections are on time. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday assured preparations for the May 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections are on time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve actually started preparing for barangay last year&#8230;We just continue our preparations&#8230; But there\u2019s already a template how we should do things and we are still on time,\u201d Comelec Commissioner Luie Guia said.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the poll body official said that they would be coming out with the Calendar of Activities for the village and youth polls.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the poll body has conducted two voter registrations as part of its preparations for the May 2018 polls.<\/p>\n<p>For the first round of voter registration, it has enlisted over 1.4 million new regular voters and over 233,000 youth voters.<\/p>\n<p>From November 6 to 30, 2017, the Comelec has received a total of 843,588 voter applications.<\/p>\n<p>It also printed more than 70 million official ballots for the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday assured preparations for the May 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":107267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[25926,11460,3716,11461],"class_list":["post-143675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-25926","tag-barangay-elections","tag-comelec","tag-sk-elections","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143675","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}