{"id":259468,"date":"2020-06-26T05:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259468"},"modified":"2020-06-26T05:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:28:39","slug":"suspension-of-voter-registration-extended-till-august-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/26\/suspension-of-voter-registration-extended-till-august-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension of voter registration extended till August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210340\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-210340 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-20x13.jpeg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Comelec suspended voter registration activities in all its local offices last March 9 until March 31 due to the pandemic. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\">Photo By Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has extended the suspension of voter registration until August 31.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is suspended up to August 31. Our field personnel requested for the extension so as to ensure their safety and the safety of the public. We agreed,&#8221; Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said in an interview on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Guanzon, however, said they are hoping that the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) crisis has eased by that time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the end of August 31, we hope that the Covid pandemic would have ebbed,&#8221; Guanzon added.<\/p>\n<p>The Comelec suspended voter registration activities in all its local offices last March 9 until March 31 due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In an order on March 27, it was extended again to April 30 because of the extension of the enhanced community quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>Five days before the April deadline, the Comelec said voter registration activities would still be suspended until June 30.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide voter registration period started on January 20, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It will run until September 30, 2021 in preparation for the May 2022 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has extended the suspension of voter registration until August 31. &#8220;It is suspended &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":210340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259468","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=259468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259470,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259468\/revisions\/259470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}