{"id":25057,"date":"2014-09-08T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=25057"},"modified":"2014-09-08T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:40:01","slug":"no-suspension-of-voting-registration-for-2016-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/08\/no-suspension-of-voting-registration-for-2016-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"No suspension of voting registration for 2016 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 \u2013 The Commission on Elections will not be suspending the ongoing voters\u2019 registration for the 2016 elections, even during the upcoming Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls set in February next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to come out with a consensus not to suspend the registration,\u201d Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said, as quoted in a Philippine Star report.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the mandate given to Comelec to suspend the registration of voters90 days before a special election and 120 days before a regular election.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman also added that the voters may not be able to register on time if they suspend the registration for three months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, we have yet to reach one million and that\u2019s only for the biometrics. What more of the new registrants,\u201d he said, adding that they are targeting a total of 9.6 million registrations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Comelec is also considering an option to register voters who have been deactivated after failure to vote in two successive elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Commission on Elections will not be suspending the ongoing voters\u2019 registration for the 2016 elections, even during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[4844,5073,7716],"class_list":["post-25057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-2016-polls","tag-no-suspension","tag-voting-registration","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057","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=25057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/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=25057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}