{"id":184765,"date":"2018-10-09T02:23:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T06:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184765"},"modified":"2018-10-09T02:23:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T06:23:49","slug":"voter-registration-needs-election-boards-approval-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/09\/voter-registration-needs-election-boards-approval-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter registration needs election boards&#8217; approval: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177336\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177336\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cOnce they are approved by the ERBs (Election Registration Boards), that is the only time one can say that an applicant is already a registered voter.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\">File Photo By Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work\/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Those who have filed application for registration from July 2 to September 29 are not yet officially voters, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce they are approved by the ERBs (Election Registration Boards), that is the only time one can say that an applicant is already a registered voter,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The ERB will process the applications in approximately two weeks. The notifications of approvals and disapprovals will then be posted at the Offices of the Election Officers.<\/p>\n<p>Each city and municipality have their own ERBs, which is composed of the city\/municipal election officer, a public school official, and the local civil registrar.<\/p>\n<p>The poll body has reported that it has received more than 2.5 million applications for voter registration during the three-month registration period in connection with the May 2019 national and local elections.<\/p>\n<p>This exceeds the poll body&#8217;s earlier projection of 1.5 to 2 million applications for voter registration.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for voter registration, transfer\/transfer with reactivation; reactivation; change\/correction of entry; and inclusion\/reinstatement of records in the list of voters were accepted during the registration period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Those who have filed application for registration from July 2 to September 29 are not yet officially voters, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":177336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184765","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=184765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}