TACLOBAN CITY—Only 40,000 individuals in Eastern Visayas have so far registered as voters for elections in 2022.
Lawyer Felicisimo Embalsado, assistant regional director of the Commission on Elections in Eastern Visayas, said the low number of registrants could be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the May 2016 elections, the Eastern Visayas Comelec office reported that at least 2.2 million out of 2.6 million voters turned up to cast ballots for national and local races.
Embalsado said the Comelec was still encouraging people qualified to vote to register for the May 9, 2022 national elections.
But he said people going to reg…
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