By Annabel Consuelo Petinglay
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Antique remains committed to engaging eligible voters, with 3,703 individuals having registered as of Thursday.
Salud Milagros Villanueva, the Provincial Election Supervisor of Antique, stated on Friday that the majority of newly registered voters include individuals with deactivated records and those who have recently turned 18.
“We are ensuring that our municipal election offices exert additional efforts to reach out to those who wish to register,” she emphasized in an interview.
Municipal election offices are holding satellite registrations in communities since Feb. 12 and aim to reach all 590 villages until the Sept. 30 deadline.
“Voters will just have to stay tuned about the schedule of the satellite registration in their barangays so they no longer have to go to the municipal election offices,” she said.
“They just have to bring their government-issued identification cards and, for students, their birth certificates,” she added.
Municipal election offices are open from Monday to Saturday, including holidays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The San Jose de Buenavista municipal election office also conducts the Register Anywhere Program (RAP).
“Through the RAP, voters wanting to transfer their registration in Antique are no longer required to go to the Comelec office in other provinces where they previously registered,” she said.
The Comelec Education and Information Department, headed by Director Rex Laudiangco, will conduct a voter education at the University of Antique in Sibalom town on June 4. (PNA)
