MANILA, Philippines – The latest – and perhaps last – round of voter registration for the long-delayed 2023 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections came to a close on Tuesday, January 31.
As usual, voter registration sites saw an influx of applicants trying to beat the deadline.
Rappler’s resident elections reporter Dwight de Leon visited a satellite registration site located inside a mall in Manila and talked to the registrants on what motivated them to make time for a process that would allow them to exercise their right to suffrage.
What Rappler heard from them were mostly practical reasons: a teacher needed to transfer her record to be eligible to serve in polling precincts in October; two senior citizens wanted to cast their ballots in Manila because traveling to their home province just to vote would be costly; a single mother said her barangay’s priority during government aid distribution were registered voters. – Rappler.com
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