Pangasinan logs over 100,000 new voters
COMELEC Chairman George Garcia demonstrates use of new voting machine (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
100,00 VOTERS PURGED IN NEW LIST
ABOUT 123,000 new voters have registered in Pangasinan as of August 15, exceeding the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) initial target of at 75,000 for the 2025 midterm elections.
Atty. Marino Salas, Comelec-Pangasinan election supervisor, attributed the high rate to the off-site registrations conducted in shopping malls, barangays, and schools throughout the province.
In an interview at the Lyceum Northwestern University in Dagupan on Aug. 20 following a mock elections exercise, he said the new registrants practically replaced some 100,000 names — who had either failed to vote twice, passed away, or relocated — that were purged from the list after the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (village and youth council) elections in 2022.
Registration for the May 2025 elections will be until September 30.
About 1,000 Pangasinenses participated in the mock elections, intended as a demonstration on the use and safety features of the new machines that will be used in next year’s polls.
Pangasinan was the third vote-rich province in the 2022 elections with 2.1 million registered voters. (Ahikam Pasion)
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