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WATCHDOG QUESTIONS DECREASE IN R-11 VOTERS By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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LECTION watchdog Kontra Daya-Southern Mindanao yesterday expressed concern about the possible manipulation of the 2016 national and local elections. This after the group found from the website of the Commission on Election (Comelec) that the number of voters in Region 11 has decreased. Speaking in yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex, Kontra Daya-Southern Mindanao and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan spokesperson Sheena Duazo said the final number of voters in Re-
gion 11 for the 2016 election is 2,659,704, lower than the 2,710,956 from the number of voters registered in July 2015. She said there would have been time for voters to have their biometrics taken from July to October last year. “So, mag-expect unta ta na modako pa ni siya kay magapas gud ang mga tao sa deadline, pero pag-abot final nibaba man hinuon, nabawasan man nuon ang mga naparehistro tong July last year (It should be expected that the number would increase because people wanted to beat the deadline. But the final list shows a
decrease),” she said. Duazo said a total of 51,252 voters were deleted from the list. “Among all the regions in the whole Philippines why is that only Davao region had decreased while the rest of the regions were increasing,” she said. She said the numbers are questionable and the group wants the Comelec to explain why it is happening. “Nagsugod na ba karon ang maneuvering since dili pud nato masulti kay naa may kandidato nga gikan dinihi? (Has the maneuvering of the election started because we cannot
deny that there is a candidate from this region?) ” she said. Earlier, COMELEC 11 assistant regional director Marlon Casquejo said some 170,000 voters in the region had been deactivated from the Comelec database after the Supreme Court dismissed the petition last December 16 questioning the constitutionality of the poll body’s “No Bio, No Boto” policy for lack of merit. Comelec records showed that Davao City has a total of 873,670 voters, followed by Davao del Norte with 525,343, Compostela Valley with
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