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Voter registration in the Philippines is the process of filing an application to have a voter's record at the Commission on Election in a specific date and designated places set by the Comelec. [ 1 ]
The COMELEC was created by a 1940 amendment to the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines.Prior to the creation of the COMELEC, supervision over the conduct of elections was vested by law in the Executive Bureau under the Department of Interior and, later directly by the same department.
The November 2016 barangay and SK elections were postponed to May 2018, and the following election was scheduled for May 2020, then every three years thereafter. [6]On September 30, 2019, the Senate of the Philippines passed a bill postponing the date of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to December 5, 2022. [7]
The IBON Foundation, a non-profit research organization based in the Philippines also criticized Smartmatic's system, stating in 2016 that "Why Smartmatic keeps on winning COMELEC contracts boggles the mind especially considering the numerous and major malfunctions by the machines and services that Smartmatic provided in the past two elections ...
The National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections or NAMFREL is an election watchdog in the Philippines. It was the first and one of the most famous election watch campaigns. [ 1 ] It is known to have introduced non-partisan national election monitoring to the Philippines after exposing the issues involved with the 1986 snap elections .
For the 2019 elections, the COMELEC presented its source code for review by accredited U.S. software testing company Pro V&V in an effort to make the automated elections transparent. [1] The Philippines stands today with Brazil, Estonia, Belgium and Venezuela at the forefront of election technology adoption.
The registration period was postponed to start on February 1, 2009 [6] instead of the originally planned start date of December 1, 2008, this was done to ensure that the embassies and consulates have enough time to prepare. The registration period ends on August 31, 2009, for a total of almost seven months, two months shorter of the original plan.
A week later, COMELEC announced that the special election would be on December 9, 2023, with the filing of candidacies from November 6 to 8. [35] The filing deadline would later be extended to November 11. [36] COMELEC allocated ₱75 million for the conduct of the election. [37] There are a total of 301,264 registered voters in the district. [38]