A TOTAL of 13,135 youths and regular voters have registered during the registration of voters conducted by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from July 15 to 30.
Second District Election Officer Lerdo Matildo, Jr. said 6,998 of the 13,135 new voters registered in his district while the remaining 6,137 in the first district.
The first congressional district consists of 37 villages while the second district of 61 barangays, including eight island villages.
Matildo said the registration documents of the new voters will be sent to the Comelec central office for Automated Fingerprint Identification System (Afis) to ensure none of them are multiple registrants.
Matildo said the Election Registration Boards (ERBs) of the first and second districts will also convene to deliberate and approve the registration of the new registrants.
The ERB on the first district composed of lawyer Stephen Roy Cañete, first district, City Treasurer Soledad Li and City Division of Schools Superintendent Pedro Melchor Natividad.
The ERB members in the second district are Matildo, Natividad and lawyer Alexander Elias, city civil registrar.
The youth registrants are aged 15 to 24. However, only those 18 to 24 years old can file candidacy for the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections while those aged 15 to 17 can only vote.
The youths who are 18 to 24 years old can also vote in the regular elections.
The filing of the certificate of candidacy for the barangay and SK elections is from October 3 to 5. The election is on October 21. (Bong Garcia)