CATBALOGAN CITY –
New registrants for both Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) have
swarmed Comelec offices in Samar.
This was bared by
Catbalogan City Election Officer Edgar delos Reyes to the media
yesterday as he was busy grappling with the queuing young people.
Catbalogan LGU had to
assign casual employees to augment the 3-member Comelec team.
PIA learned that for
the two days, Sunday and Monday, Catbalogan Comelec listed some 854
barangay registrants while 761 were listed for SK.
De los Reyes though
warned some unscrupulous elements who would force teeners to register
because they tend to forge the date of birth to accommodate them to be
wary, or they would be charged with falsification.
At least some ten
registrants were disqualified as the Comelec officer spotted some
suspicious entries in the documents required.
In Pinabacdao town,
Municipal Election Officer Josefina Aguilar said that they had more
than a hundred registrants on Sunday, the first day of the
registration period for the October 29 Synchronized SK and Barangay
polls.
In Matuginao,
Municipal Election Officer Lito Villa also confirmed the situation as
most voters now do not want to beat the deadline
Comelec has scheduled
only one week from
July 15-22, 2007
for the new voters to register for the October elections.
One new registered
voter who does not want to be identified said that it is better to
just give a shorter period for voters to register so that they would
be conscious of the time. If they delay and delay, in the process,
they may forget and miss the opportunity.
