THE Election Registration Board (ERB) of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Bacolod City has disapproved about 32 voter registration applications.
City Election Officer Kathrina Trinio-Caña said Monday, August 8, that there were 41 voter applicants invited for the ERB hearing on August 1 to 4.
Of the number, 32 were disapproved because they already transferred to other barangays, Trinio-Caña said, adding that 31 are from Barangay 19 and the other one was from Barangay 28.
"Their applications were disapproved because they are no longer residing in Barangay 19 and 28 which they also admitted during the ERB hearing," she said.
Upon verification, these voter applicants in Barangay 19 are now residents of Purok Pedring in Barangay Estefania after they were relocated there.
She added that the 32 disapproved applicants can still file an inclusion case before the court.
Trinio-Caña noted that the notice of disapproval was released at the Comelec-Bacolod Office yesterday.
The ERB is chaired by Trinio-Caña along with its members, the Civil Registrar Office and Department of Education (DepEd)-Bacolod.
From July 4 to 23, 2022, Comelec-Bacolod recorded a total of 10, 286 new registrants in the city and were subjected for ERB hearing.
Trinio-Caña said that of the total registrants, 4,067 are registrants aged 15 to 17; 2,885 registrants aged 18 to 30; and 950 aged 31 years old and above.
Some 1,267 registrants are for transfer from other city or municipality; 367 transfer within the same city; 164 - application for transfer with reactivation; 32 - application for transfer with reactivation and correction of entries; 36 - application for transfer with correction of entries; 418 - application of reactivation; 33 - application for reactivation with correction of entries; 45 - application for change of name or correction of entries; and 23 - application for transfer from other areas.
Trinio-Caña said there will be no extension of voters' registration for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections.