COMELEC, nanawagan para sa reactivation ng ilang botante bago magtapos ang Setyembre | The Mangahas Interviews

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Hinimok ng COMELEC ang mga botante na magparehistro muli bago magtapos ang registration sa Setyembre 30. Tinalakay rin ang patuloy na pagtaas ng overseas voters at ang bagong sistema ng internet voting.




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00:00We will now go to the continuing registration of voters until the end of September.
00:06But you also have news that the deactivated voters are more than the newly registered voters. What is the status and what is your target?
00:19You're right, Ma'am Malu. At the moment, we have 2.3 million added voters. That's new. But more or less, we have also activated 600,000.
00:30So we have added 3 million voters. That's why it's sad because after the examination of our records, we have 5.3 million deactivated voters who did not vote in the next two elections.
00:47Of course, those 5.3 million are not included in the 200,000 double or multiple registrants that we have seen.
00:55We have also seen those who died here in the area where they registered. So more or less, all of those 6 million are removed from the list.
01:06That's a big thing. The 6 million, when it comes out, it's as if the 3 million voters are gone.
01:13That's why we are still calling for our registration to be activated until September 30 so that our 5.3 million of countrymen can be reactivated.
01:25Okay. So to be honest, you cannot remove names from the book of voters. It means they can be reactivated if they think that they did not vote in the last two elections but they want to rise again in 2025.
01:44You're right. You know, 82.5 percent of our voters turned out in 2022. It means we have 17.5 percent who did not vote.
01:53In my opinion, the 5.3 million, maybe that's the 17.5 percent who did not vote in the Barangay and Esquire elections and later they will vote again
02:03in the presidential and vice-presidential elections in 2020. I hope it won't happen because even if it's only the Barangay or the Municipality,
02:13it's important to hear the voices of the countrymen because we have no right to complain if we don't participate in our electoral exercises.
02:22Those 200,000 double or multiple registrants, are they the potential flying voters?
02:29Yes they can. But you know, they look bad in our analysis. That's the first thing that came to our mind. Maybe they are the flying voters, but they are not.
02:39They are the double or multiple registrants that they can prove that they are registered. Therefore, their records are still existing.
02:47What they did, they still formed the new application for registration. That's why they moved to another place,
02:55because they cannot vote in the places where they used to vote, they transferred the registration or registered a new one.
03:03We should transfer with reactivation. We transfer and then we reactivate. Don't register a new one because you can be charged with one to six years imprisonment
03:17for election offense. That's a criminal case.
03:19Okay. Suma total, how many expected voters do you have in May 2025, plus or minus the new voters and the deactivated?
03:27We should have 70 million voters. That's our projection. But it looks like only 68 million will come out.
03:35At the moment, we have 66 million. If we register from July 16 to September 30, we can only reach 2 million.
03:44Therefore, even if you add to the 66 million, it will only be 68 million voters.
03:50Because of the big loss in the deactivated, it's okay if we reactivate the 5.3 million voters.
03:59As for the overseas voters, it looks like there are more registrants, but the turnout is not that good, especially for women.
04:08What is the status of the internet voting? It looks like you already have a contract. What is the outlook in your opinion? Will there be a lot of voters?
04:17It's not that promising for the registrants. At the moment, our registered voters abroad are 1,180,000, 1,180,000 voters.
04:32The projection should be 3 million because we announced that we have internet voting. They don't need to go to the embassy to vote or send envelopes containing balota.
04:44You're right, we have a system that was procured for internet voting. It's worth 100 million. Our ABC should be 465 million.
04:57But we only got an offer of 100 million. We were really worried about that, but if we will use it, we used the Procurement Act.
05:06They won the pre-qualification and post-qualification, the lowest calculated bid.
05:13There's nothing we can do about it. That's why we are pushing them to comply with all the promises and commitments in our procurement.

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