Registration for barangay, SK polls will be on July 15 to 30 –Comelec

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday released its guidelines for voter registration in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections set in October, with a two-week period to file applications set late next week.

In a resolution, the Comelec en banc announced that voter registration will be from July 15 to 30, including weekends and holidays.

The Comelec said registrants must personally file their applications with the Offices of Election Officer of their respective cities or municipalities on those dates from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The registration is open to first-time voters—both in regular and SK polls—as well as those who have been deactivated for failing to participate in at least two consecutive elections.

With the enactment of the Sangguniang Kabataan Reform Act of 2015, membership to the Katipunan ng Kabataan (Youth Assembly) is expanded to all youth aged 15 to 30 years old on the day of the polls. 

Registration is open for those between ages 15 to 17. Registrants must be living in the community for at least six months.

Meanwhile, registrants for barangay elections must be at least 18 years old by the time of the elections. They must also be a resident of the Philippines for at least one year, and living in the place where they intend to vote at least six months before the elections.

Voters between 18 to 30 years old who participated in the May 9 polls—or those of this age registering for the barangay elections—will also be listed for the Katipunan ng Kabataan polls.

Application forms may be downloaded from www.comelec.gov.ph, to be printed on long bond paper. Applicants must "manually fill-up" three copies of these.

For the October polls, the Comelec said it will not entertain applications for transfer of registration records from other district/city/municipality nor within the same city/municipality.  —KBK, GMA News