By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — Today marks the start of the registration and validation of voters for the 2016 national elections.
Some 118,000 voters in Negros Occidental were urged to undergo biometrics registration, said Provincial Election Supervisor Jessie Suarez.
Local Commission on Elections (Comelec) offices will also register first-time voters 18 years old and up, and reactivate the registration of voters who failed to vote during the last two elections.
They will also accommodate requests for transfer of registration to another city or municipality and for corrections in voters’ records, Suarez said.
Suarez said the national elections will be on May 9, 2016.
Transactions relative to the registration and validation can be made with Comelec offices six days a week starting today, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Comelec national office spokesperson James Jimenez said the local election officer will determine their rest day — either a Friday or a Saturday.
The registration will run through October 31, 2015.
Jimenez also said Comelec can put up satellite registration centers in areas where there is a minimum of 200 registrants.
In this case, said Suarez, the applicants only need to write a letter request to the local election officer./PN
