{"id":50933,"date":"2015-06-01T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T04:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50933"},"modified":"2015-06-01T12:19:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T04:19:31","slug":"there-are-still-over-5-million-unclaimed-voters-ids-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/01\/there-are-still-over-5-million-unclaimed-voters-ids-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"There are still over 5 million unclaimed voter&#8217;s IDs &#8212; Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20130702074335COMELEC_Seal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32775\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20130702074335COMELEC_Seal.png\" alt=\"20130702074335!COMELEC_Seal\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20130702074335COMELEC_Seal.png 230w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20130702074335COMELEC_Seal-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/20130702074335COMELEC_Seal-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said there are more than 5 million unclaimed voters\u2019 identification (ID) cards.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Comelec Spokesman James Jimenez urged the public that the IDs can be claimed in all Offices of Election Officers (OEOs) in their localities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data of the Comelec \u2013 Election and Barangay Affairs Department (EBAD), there are over 5.5 million voters\u2019 ID yet to be claimed by registered voters as of March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have over five million IDs that are unclaimed. We are wondering why they are not being claimed?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec has released 22,567,882 voters\u2019 ID to its city\/municipal OEOs, a total of 5,506,524 still unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez noted that the voters\u2019 ID is free.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of the unclaimed IDs were found in the Calabarzon with 1,018,693 followed by Metro Manila with 878,192.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the poll body report added that a total of 13,256,588 voters\u2019 ID have already been released by OEOs to voters.<\/p>\n<p>Region 4-A also has the highest number of claimed voters\u2019 ID with 1,987,744 with Central Luzon closely behind with 1,659,321.<\/p>\n<p>The Comelec said some 2,730,976 have been withheld by OEOs due to deactivation, cancellation, and transfer of registration, as well as correction of entries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a total of 1,085,891 IDs have been released to their respective barangays before the termination of the said arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hindi na kami nagre-release thru barangays. Nagka-issue e. Nagkakaipitan ng IDs like kapag hindi friends ng barangay, minsan sasabihin wala kang ID,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said there are more than 5 million unclaimed voters\u2019 identification (ID) cards. With &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":32775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50933","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=50933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}