THE number of new applicants in the voter registration drive reached more than 4.6 million, and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is confident that the figure will hit the 5-million mark before the list-up ends on September 30.
Chairman George Erwin Garcia said that Comelec’s target for the campaign was only 3 million for the 2025 midterm polls. But at the rate the voter registration is progressing, chances are the numbers could easily hit 5 million.
Garcia said that the overall figure includes applications for reactivation of 409,329 voters out of the 5.1 million who were earlier delisted from the poll body’s list for failure to vote in the last two elections, those with court orders to exclude them and those who failed to validate their records.
Chairman George Erwin Garcia
Garcia said that 248,972 were permanently deleted from the voters list because of death or multiple or double registration.
Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) or Region 4A topped the list of registrants with 783,860 followed by the National Capital Region or Metro Manila with 641,190; Region 3 (Central Luzon), 545,653; Region 11 (Davao), 276,967; and Region 7 (Central Visayas), 249,186.
Garcia attributed the success of the ongoing registration to Comelec’s massive information dissemination campaign and other pro-active measures that made it easier for the public, particularly the youth who would vote for the first time in 2025, to register, among other factors.
The resumption of the continuing system of registration started on February 12 and will end on September 30, except for the Register Anywhere Program (RAP), which will end on August 31.
A Filipino who is at least 18 years of age on election day on May 12, 2025, a resident of the Philippines for at least one year and in the place wherein he/she proposes to vote for at least six months immediately preceding the 2025 elections, and not otherwise disqualified by law, can register as a voter.
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