Comelec resets ARMM voter's registration
MANILA, Philippines - Due to weather disturbances Ondoy and Pepeng, the Commission on Elections has reset the resumption of the continuing voter’s registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) from Oct. 12 to 19.
But to “ensure that adequate time is afforded to applicants for registration,” the Comelec said that an additional two hours on weekdays and eight hours on Saturdays and Sundays” would be provided in affected offices for the duration of the registration period.
“The field officials in the ARMM shall be authorized to render overtime services for said additional hours of registration,” the Comelec noted in a minute resolution.
Despite the new schedule, however, the registration period in ARMM will end on Oct. 31, the same time with other parts of the country where the registration began in Feb. 12.
The schedule for ARMM is different from the rest of the country because continuing registration there had resumed before the regional election there in Aug. 2 last year.
The postponement was recommended by Comelec executive director Jose Tolentino Jr. because the “preparations for the registration were disrupted by the two typhoons that recently pummeled Metro Manila.”
Tolentino maintained in a memorandum that the new schedule would “provide sufficient time” for the conduct of field tests of the data capturing machines, training of field officers who would carry out the registration process and for the shipment of forms and supplies needed in the procedure.
To date, there is a total of 1.6 registered voters in ARMM and some 85,000 more voters are expected to register for the 2010 elections.
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