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E-mail704,542 multiple and double registrants were found and weeded out of the voter’s list using a new computer program that checks voters registration records, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Friday.
Aside from biometric scans and an automated fingerprint indentification system, the Comelec is now using “algorithmic matching” to cross-check voter information on the computerized voter’s list and purge redundant records by matching names and birthday records, said Commissioner Rene Sarmiento.
According to Comelec records, the National Capital Region has the most number of double and multiple registrants in its 2nd, 4th and 3rd districts (156,133), followed by Cavite (47,016), Davao del Sur (34,557), Nueva Ecija (32,030), Rizal province (28,663), Cebu (23,602), Laguna (20,107), Pampanga (21,758), Negros Occidental (18,800), Iloilo (15,783), Pangasinan (14,734), South Cotabato (14,637) and Batangas (13,413).
Comelec will also issue a watchlist against the voters they identified in the scan ahead of the May polls.
“The creation of the watchlist would prevent these multiple registrants to vote in more than one precinct where they have been registered. ITD will issue to Election Officers a list of voters whose registration records are not valid anymore per precinct and per district, city or municipality so they can only vote once. Voting more than once is an election offense and is punishable by law,” Sarmiento said.
Sarmiento said Comelec has ordered that the multiple registration records of the 704,542 voters listed by the Information and Technology Department of the agency be destroyed.
Comelec resolution 09-0696 issued March 10 mandates that double or multiple registrants will be allowed to vote at the registrant’s latest record if they registered in a different city, district or municipality. Registrants who who have multiple records found in the same city, district or municipality can vote where they originally registered.
Board of election officers are mandated not to allow multiple registrants to vote in precints where there records were cancelled and the redundant registration records of multiple registrants shall be deleted after the polls by the Election Registration Board, said Sarmiento.
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