Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 24) — A total of 25,440 records have been deleted in the national list of registered voters due to double or multiple registrations and other reasons, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said.
In a statement on Friday, Comelec said 12,987 of those records were seen to have two or more voters’ fingerprints based on the Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
Some 12,274 were voters already transferred to another city or town while nearly 170 were voters who have already died, as reported or confirmed by local civil registrars.
Also, nine of the removed records were found to have double or multiple records in the local level, and two have failed to vote twice in two succeeding regular elections.
The poll body conducted a special election registration board hearing on June 19 to remove duplicate registrations from the database as it prepares for the 2023 Brangay ang Sangguniang Kabataan polls in October.
It is set to give the copies of the updated list to the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting and National Movement for Free Elections for examination.
Comelec will \”cleanse’ the voter’s list again in July to check if there are remaining double or multiple records.
