Technology ends days of “flying voters”
THERE is bad news for candidates who resort to “flying voters” to help ensure their win at the polls.
The Commission Elections has a new technology in place called Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), that can easily detect a double registrant or a prospective flying voter.
In a news conference on Wednesday (December 7), lawyer Michael Franks Sarmiento, election registrar of Dagupan, said the AFIS in his office can easily detect if a person was already registered and where he registered.
Through AFIS result, the City Election Office detected 590 double registrants from July 4 to 23, 2022 and were deleted from the list of voters per Comelec Minute Resolution No. 8882.
Others deleted from the voters’ list were 210 voters due to death; 246 whose registration records were transferred to another district/city/ municipality; one double entry and 187 applied for OV/Certified OV.
Sarmiento warned that an interview alone by a trained Comelec personnel can already tell if the person applying for new registration is telling a lie, and the system can immediately trace where he or she had registered.
Stressing that double registration is illegal, Sarmiento said those seeking new registration or transfer of registration to file their applications for transfer of place of voting and must show proof that they had long been staying and working in Dagupan.
The Comelec will resume accepting applications to be filed by new voters (transferring voters included) from December 12, 2022 to January 31, 2023. (Leonardo Micua)
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