City Comelec gears for extended registration for Brgy, SK polls
City Election Officer Jonathan Sayno said they will continue to process the recent data collected in the July17-22 registration pending the official order from the Comelec Regional Office to extend the registration of voters for the coming barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 29, 2007.
Sayno said they could not just proceed with the extension of the registration without official guidelines from the Comelec regional office. The Comelec regional office will soon issue an order extending the voters registration after they get hold of the official guidelines from their central office.
His reaction was in response to the pronouncement of Comelec national office to extend the registration for barangay voters until July 26. While, the registration for the SK will continue on July 28 and 29 and on August 4 and 5.
With the absence of the Comelec official guidelines, the city Comelec will process the applicants' data through the data-capturing machine (DCM). The DCM will contain the demographics and biometrics data of the applicants, said Sayno.
Yesterday, the Comelec processed the applicants' data from Lapuz and Lapaz. Today, they will process the applicants' data from Molo. The applicants' data from Arevalo and Mandurriao will be processed on July 26 and Jaro on July 27.
Voters who are 18 years old and above are the ones subjected for the DCM. While, those registrant who are 18 years old below will not already return to the Comelec for the DCM. The documents they have submitted will already be a proof that they have already registered.