{"id":43842,"date":"2015-03-02T03:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43842"},"modified":"2015-03-02T03:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T19:14:31","slug":"4-7-million-filipino-voters-still-have-no-biometrics-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/02\/4-7-million-filipino-voters-still-have-no-biometrics-data\/","title":{"rendered":"4.7 million Filipino voters still have no biometrics data"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27067\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27067\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that some 4.7 million voters in the country still have no biometrics data.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said that these voters would not be able to participate in the 2016 national and local elections if they failed to have their biometrics taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c4.7 million <i>pa ang walang<\/i> biometrics, down from 9.3 million last May. <i>Di sila makakaboto kung di sila<\/i> #magpaBIOMETRICS. #NoBioNoBoto,\u201d he said in his Twitter account, @jabjimenez.<\/p>\n<p>Biometric refers to the automated identification of an individual, particularly his\/her photograph, fingerprint and signature.<\/p>\n<p>Under Republic Act 10347, or the Mandatory Biometrics Voter Registration Act of 2013, registered voters with no biometrics would be deactivated from the succeeding polls and therefore, be disenfranchised.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the nationwide registration started last May 6, 2014 and will run until October 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It was temporarily suspended from December 21, 2014 to Jan. 4, 2015 in observance of the Holiday Season. It has resumed on Jan. 5, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The public may apply for registration in the Offices of Election Officers (OEOs) in their areas. The local Comelec offices are open Sunday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from registration, there are other types of transactions being offered these are: validation of their biometrics data; transfer of their registration to another city or municipality; reactivation of their registration and correcting entries in their records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that some 4.7 million voters in the country still have no biometrics &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-ferdinand-g-patinio","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43842","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=43842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}