PAGADIAN City has a total of 109,339 registered voters who are eligible to cast their ballots in next year’s automated elections, a Nov. 24 quarterly report forwarded by city election officer Dinah Cagampang-Sapong stated.
Sapong said the list of voters is now completely updated and comprises their fourth quarter report in the system of continuing registration.
She added that the list came a little bit late because of the cleansing of the voter’s list of those who did not participate in the last two elections which were removed.
She noted that the updated figures exceeded their target and said that there is an increase of the voting populace.
The total number of registered voters is actually the difference of the subtracted 1,220 voters from the 110,559 who were classified as those with multiple registrations along with others who transferred to another municipality or city.
So far, there were no names, which have been deactivated from the voters list, as contained in the report submitted by the Comelec.
First-time voters, meanwhile, totaled 5,592, even as the Comelec office has to contend with residents who went to their office at the last minute of the registration deadline last Oct. 31.
All in all, there are 143 clustered precincts out of the established 724 in 54 barangays all over the regional center.
Last Dec. 1, the final day of filing of certificates of candidacies, Sapong lauded the peaceful and orderly conduct of filing of candidacies in the light of excitement and apprehensions in the coming automated general elections next year.
She hopes this will continue until voting day.
The Comelec is targeting about three million new registrants after the Oct. 31 deadline on top of the 2.8 million people partially counted as having registered already while roughly 45.6 million of the country’s estimated 91 million population are qualified to vote on May 10, 2010.
In Comelec’s calendar of the 2010 National and Local Elections, Feb. 9, 2010 is the start of the campaign period for candidates for President, Vice-President, Senators and party-list groups participating in the party-list system of representation.
March 26 also is the start of the campaign period for candidates for the House of Representatives and elective provincial, city and municipal officials.
May 7 will be the last day for testing and sealing of Precinct Count Optical Scan and May 10 will be the day for the casting of votes.
REPORT BY MICHAEL MEDINA
Sapong said the list of voters is now completely updated and comprises their fourth quarter report in the system of continuing registration.
She added that the list came a little bit late because of the cleansing of the voter’s list of those who did not participate in the last two elections which were removed.
She noted that the updated figures exceeded their target and said that there is an increase of the voting populace.
The total number of registered voters is actually the difference of the subtracted 1,220 voters from the 110,559 who were classified as those with multiple registrations along with others who transferred to another municipality or city.
So far, there were no names, which have been deactivated from the voters list, as contained in the report submitted by the Comelec.
First-time voters, meanwhile, totaled 5,592, even as the Comelec office has to contend with residents who went to their office at the last minute of the registration deadline last Oct. 31.
All in all, there are 143 clustered precincts out of the established 724 in 54 barangays all over the regional center.
Last Dec. 1, the final day of filing of certificates of candidacies, Sapong lauded the peaceful and orderly conduct of filing of candidacies in the light of excitement and apprehensions in the coming automated general elections next year.
She hopes this will continue until voting day.
The Comelec is targeting about three million new registrants after the Oct. 31 deadline on top of the 2.8 million people partially counted as having registered already while roughly 45.6 million of the country’s estimated 91 million population are qualified to vote on May 10, 2010.
In Comelec’s calendar of the 2010 National and Local Elections, Feb. 9, 2010 is the start of the campaign period for candidates for President, Vice-President, Senators and party-list groups participating in the party-list system of representation.
March 26 also is the start of the campaign period for candidates for the House of Representatives and elective provincial, city and municipal officials.
May 7 will be the last day for testing and sealing of Precinct Count Optical Scan and May 10 will be the day for the casting of votes.
REPORT BY MICHAEL MEDINA