MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday it has processed more than half a million applications for voter reactivation.
Citing its latest data, the poll body said it has received 556,231 applications for reactivation from Feb. 12 to Sept. 11.
Of the number, 342,991 applicants have sought for their voter registration to be reactivated.
There are 102,410 individuals applied for reactivation with correction of entries while 81,649 people applied for transfer with reactivation.
A total of 29,181 applicants sought a transfer with reactivation and correction of entries.
The number of reactivation applications is only 10 percent of the number of deactivated voter registration records.
Latest data showed that there are 5,376,630 voters, whose records have been deactivated.
Majority of them, or 5,371,376, were due to their failure to vote in two successive preceding elections.
A total of 4,212 were deactivated due to exclusion orders from courts and 1,004 for failure to validate.
Aside from registration for new voters, the ongoing voter registration activities also accept applications for transfer, change/corrections of entries in the registration records, reactivation of registration records, inclusion of registration records and reinstatement of name in the list of voters, and transfer of registration records from foreign service post to local.
The voter registration period for the 2025 midterm polls runs until Sept. 30. (PNA)
