{"id":259293,"date":"2020-06-25T05:16:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259293"},"modified":"2020-06-25T05:16:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:16:46","slug":"comelec-warns-public-against-fake-voters-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/25\/comelec-warns-public-against-fake-voters-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec warns public against fake voter\u2019s ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_211929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211929\" style=\"width: 2185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-211929 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2185\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg 2185w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-20x16.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2185px) 100vw, 2185px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Director James Jimenez (left) during the Broadcasters\u2019 Forum held at Roland\u2019s Farm to Table Restaurant along Visayas Ave., Quezon City on Wednesday (April 24, 2019).\u00a0 (PNA photo by Ben Briones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday warned the public against unscrupulous persons producing fake voter identification (ID) cards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018fake news\u2019 that a person has to be a registered voter in order to receive government aid during this Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) national health crisis, seems to have created a market for fake voter identification cards. Anyone who claims to be able to produce a \u2018Comelec-issued voter ID\u2019 is a scammer who is trying to take advantage of the public,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This came amid recent reports that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested two individuals for allegedly producing and selling online spurious voter\u2019s ID cards.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez reiterated that a person need not be a registered voter to be able to get financial assistance from the government during the health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said being a registered voter is not a factor in determining who gets into the list of beneficiaries of the government\u2019s social amelioration program.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez, meanwhile, reminded the public that the poll body has stopped issuing voter&#8217;s IDs since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Comelec has stopped issuing (voter&#8217;s) IDs, in anticipation of the launch of the National ID system,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday warned the public against unscrupulous persons producing fake voter identification (ID) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":211929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259293","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=259293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259294,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259293\/revisions\/259294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}