Last day blues: Comelec to get more voters validated

QUEZON CITY, October 30  – The field offices under the Commission on Elections Region IV will attempt to accommodate the most numbers of qualified voters without Biometric registration on Saturday.

Voters with unregistered biometrics in Palawan may check a satellite registration site in Robinson’s Place in Puerto Princesa City; the rest may need to come early in the various field offices of the commission in all the provinces of Mimaropa and Calabarzon.

Without having their biometrics registered, these voters will be prevented from participating in the upcoming 2016 elections in accordance with the Republic Act No. 10367 o “An Act Providing for Mandatory Biometrics Voters Registration.”

Registering their biometrics---pictures, signatures, irises and fingerprints--- will legitimize voters who signed up in the general registration held between 1997 and 2002.

Biometrics Registration will be the final process for first time voters and those who needed correction in their registration.

Failure to register biometrics will cause the Comelec to deactivate previously registered voters.

Voter registration machines can only process 200 to 250 people a day, but Comelec  Region IV  Elections 

Director Juanito Ocampo Icaro said they will do their best to have more voters registered.

Regional offices, he said, have the authority to conduct registration from 8 am until 9 pm.

He said the Commission has augmented regional offices with additional voter’s registration machines.

As of October 25, Director Icaro said, the combined number of voters without biometrics registration is around 547,141.

Below are video references in Filipino (PIA-Mimaropa Interview with Director Icaro)

NoBioNoBoto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Huling Hirit sa Biometrics Registration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4mu0m-anQc

Batayan ng NoBioNoBoto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYHKKPPMEx4