Civic group launches #ListaNaYan voters campaign

With only three months left for voters to register, the civic group Samahan para sa Tunay na Eleksyon sa Pilipinas (STEP) coalition launched their #ListaNaYan campaign on voter registration and civic participation. The group cites accessibility, long lines, and misinformation as reasons why people fail to register through biometrics. Thus, the campaign aims to circulate information about biometrics registration and to make registration more accessible and efficient. Some of the campaign’s programs are specifically geared towards Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and Indigenous People (IP). STEP includes government, non-government, and quasi-government agencies. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC), National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA), and the Department of Education (DepEd) form the governmental arm. The non-government organizations involved in this project are composed of the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE), Simbahan Lingkod ng Bayan (SLB), and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines- National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP-NSSA). The Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) is the only quasi-government organization.

Read about #ListaNaYan campaign.