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Nearly 900,000 new voters registered for 2019 SK, barangay polls

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Nearly 900,000 new voters registered during the 22-day voters’ registration period for the 2018 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, bringing the total number of voters in the country to more than 55 million, the Commission on Elections said.

The Comelec said a total of 843,588 new voters applied to different Comelec satellite office in the country.  The registration started last Nov. 30.

The Comelec said that there are 54,363,844 registered voters nationwide in 2016 and with the new registrants,  there is an increase of almost 900,000 in the number of voters for a total of 55,207,432. This, however, do not yet include the 1,376,067 registered overseas Filipino voters.

Comelec spokesperson James Jimnez said the figure includes 45,927 people aged 18 and above who signed up as regular voters, and 249,925 people aged 15 to 17 who signed up as youth voters.

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“This is because of the effectiveness of the Comelec’s information campaign,” he said.

The figure of 843,588 Filipinos also included 57,008 applications for reactivation of voting status; 18,470 for reactivation with correction of entries; and 62,179 for correction of entries.

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