{"id":273118,"date":"2020-10-27T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273118"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:06:32","slug":"voters-for-2022-polls-estimated-at-62-63m-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/27\/voters-for-2022-polls-estimated-at-62-63m-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters for 2022 polls estimated at 62-63M: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_214744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214744\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190515111631-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214744\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190515111631-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190515111631-1.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190515111631-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Commission on Elections (Comelec) Spokesperson James Jimenez at the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) headquarters, Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City on Wednesday (May 15, 2019). (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) estimated the number of registered voters for the 2022 national elections to be around 62 to 63 million.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said Tuesday the number includes potential new registrants and voters whose registration was activated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour million potential registrants and expected a million reactivation, we project that we will have from anywhere around 62 million to 63 million voters in 2022. For 2022 we have about 4 million potential registrants, people who turned 18, and might or might not register to vote,\u201d Jimenez said in a virtual discussion.<\/p>\n<p>He also reported that from a voting population of 61 million in 2019, they have deactivated nearly 3 million voters for failing to vote for two consecutive elections, leaving only around 59 million registered voters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zithromax online <a href=\"https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zithromax.html\">https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zithromax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have roughly 1 million to 1.5 million potential reactivations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy propecia online <a href=\"https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/propecia.html\">https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/propecia.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> The reason for this is after every election, we do a round of deactivation of people who failed to vote twice,\u201d Jimenez added.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2019 polls, the voter turnout is 75.90 percent or roughly 46 million to 47 million voters.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Comelec is conducting a nationwide voter registration, which will run until Sept. 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Applications may be submitted to all Offices of the Election Officer from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mondays to Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>The poll body added that voter registration remains suspended under Resolution No.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy augmentin online <a href=\"https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/augmentin.html\">https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/augmentin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> 10674, in critical areas that may be under localized enhanced community quarantine as determined by appropriate authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The voter registration resumed last September 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) estimated the number of registered voters for the 2022 national elections to be around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":214744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273118","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\/273118","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=273118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281759,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273118\/revisions\/281759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}