MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections said there are now 59 million voters who registered for the 2022 local and national elections, or at least one million voters short of its target.
The poll body is hoping to reach more than 60 million registered voters for the 2022 polls.
Comelec Commissioner Antonio Kho Jr. saidprospective voters can still get registered until the end of September.
“We are inviting all our prospective voters to register and go to our offices para makapagrehistro sila,” he said in a Laging Handa public briefing.
In the 2019 elections, there were about 61.8 million voters but Comelec had to deactivate seven million, mostly due to fail…
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