MANILA, Philippines — Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said Wednesday voter turnout in the 2022 national elections will likely decrease as COVID-19 fears continue to hound voter registration.
Guanzon said this as she reiterated her call to prioritize the vaccination of election workers to allow them to mount registration sites in barangays.
“Kailangan po sa election natin, kailangan po ang registration talaga kasi ang turnout, ako personally, ang tingin ko bababa talaga,” Guanzon said in an interview over Teleradyo.
(In an election, what we need is registration because I personally think the turnout will really go down.)
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