Panabo City trims voters list by 12,000 names

PANABO CITY, DAVAO DEL NORTE, February 2 (PIA) - - - The Commission on Election (COMELEC) based in Panabo City cleansed voter’s list for 2016 National Election by at least 12,000 names.

City Election Officer Abdul Kader Tambuang revealed in a recent interview that they deactivated the profile of 12,000 voters for failure to vote twice and will be deleting at least 500 more.

Tambuang said that Election Registration Board will hold a hearing for the deletion of records due to the death of the voters, multiple registration by a single voter or transfer of residence to other city or municipality, among others.

He said that due the cleansing of records, the total number of registered voters was down to 85,732 as of January 19, 2015.


“For the 2016 Election, we targeted to have at least 100,000 voters for the city of Panabo,” he said.

He said that the deactivated voters can still reactivated their account by bringing any identification card issued by the government, school or employer at the COMELEC Office or through any scheduled satellite registration areas.

“If the person doesn’t have any ID, they can bring an affidavit issued by a registered voter testifying the identity of the voter to be registered,” he said.

He added that their office conducted satellite registration every Saturday, in which almost 50% of the barangays were visited already.

Tambuang also disclosed that as per record, the city has around 4,300 voters that needed to validate their records.

“We already notified these voters for validation through registered mail,” Tambuang said.

According to COMELEC’s website, validation is a process of completing the data of registered voters who have no biometrics data or with incomplete biometrics data by capturing the same in the Voter Registration System (VRS). (PIA 11, Michael Uy)