MANILA, Philippines — Voter registration for the 2022 national elections has surpassed the 4 million target of the country’s poll body, its official revealed Thursday.
According to Commission on Elections (Comelec) Director Teopisto Elnas Jr., their listing has to date reached 4,863,455, which include first-time voters and voters who reactivated their status. For this, he also said, the total registered voters in the country for the elections next year is now at 60 million.
“So for now, meron na tayong 60 million registered voters as of June,” Elnas said during the hearing of the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms. “‘Yung target natin na 4 million, actually, lu…
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