{"id":169736,"date":"2018-07-07T23:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=169736"},"modified":"2018-07-07T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T03:00:51","slug":"down-website-no-effect-on-voters-registration-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/07\/down-website-no-effect-on-voters-registration-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"Down website no effect on voters&#8217; registration: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_169737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169737\" style=\"width: 1363px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Comelec.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169737\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Comelec.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Comelec website (Photo: Comelec)\" width=\"1363\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Comelec.png 1363w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Comelec-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Comelec-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Comelec-1024x482.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1363px) 100vw, 1363px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the Comelec website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comelec.gov.ph\/\">Photo: Comelec<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday said that the unavailability of its website, www.comelec.gov.ph has no effect on the ongoing nationwide voter registration for the May 2019 midterm polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current outage of the Comelec website has no effect on the ongoing registration of voters,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the poll body official advised the public that registration forms are available at the local poll body office in their areas as well as on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegistration application forms are available at Comelec Offices, and via the Comelec facebook page,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The continuing registration for the May 2018 national and local polls started on July 2 and will run until Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Applications shall be personally filed at the Offices of the Election Officer (OEOs) of the city\/district\/municipality, where the applicant resides.<\/p>\n<p>The OEOs are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays, including holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) reported that over 100 government websites malfunctioned due to hardware failure involving its six-year-old server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday said that the unavailability of its website, www.comelec.gov.ph has no effect on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":169737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[10397,52864],"class_list":["post-169736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-commission-on-elections","tag-may-2019-midterm-polls","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169736","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=169736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}