Mindanaotoday.com | Oro Comelec lists 14,135 new voters
CAGAYAN de Oro City has 386,428 registered voters for the village and youth council elections set on Dec. 5, this year – a 3.8-percent increase of those eligible in the May 9, 2022 national and local polls.
Lawyer Ramil Acol, Commission on Elections (Comelec) election officer, said they have registered 14,135 new voters in the city during the 18-day registration period that ended Saturday, July 23.
Acol said 9,482 of new electors belong to the 15-to-30-year-old age bracket eligible for the Sangguniang Kabataan (Youth Council) election while 4,653 are for the Barangay (village) elections, 18 years old and over.
The 4,653 voters include those who petitioned to be reinstated after failing to vote twice and those who wish to transfer to new voting precincts.
Filipinos, who resided at least six months on or before Dec. 5 this year in the village he intends to vote are eligible to register, while those wish to participate in SK balloting must be 15 years old but not more than 30 on or before the election.
Comelec Resolution No. 10798, which set the guidelines for the Barangay/Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), provides express lanes for voters who are senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and pregnant women.
The listing of new electorates for the Dec. 5 scheduled BSKE is along the Comelec’s continuing registration system.
BSKE was supposed to be held in May 2021 but was postponed to December this year.
Comelec has yet to issue a resolution setting the filing of candidacies and the campaign period for the BSKE.
Eligible electors are to elect their village chair (Punong Barangay) and youth council chair (Punong Sangguniang Kabataan) as well as seven council members each to be in office for three years.
In the May 9 regular (national and local) elections, Cagayan de Oro had 372,293 registered voters and 84% of them personally casted their votes. (MT)
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