100,000 Filipinos Lose Voting Rights in Davao City Alone The Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) will deactivate the eligibility of a little over 100,000 voters in Davao City for next year’s national election. Voters across the country were required to register their biometric data in anticipation of the 2016 election, which will rely on biometric voter identity authentication, but the window for registration closed on October 31st. Read more here
My wife was one of those who didn't make it. She tried a number of times when we weren't busy, but each time there were just too many people waiting for hours on end and she just hadn't the motivation to put up with it I'm afraid. Shame really as she'd already spent a deal of time and money securing the needed ID's. Not an easy task when you've lived overseas for as long as she had.
