Comelec Chairperson George Garcia said that those who cast their votes in the 11 shopping centers for the 2023 BSKE gave positive feedback, making it high time to “abandon schools as polling places.”
Chairman George Erwin M. Garcia inspects one of the selected malls in the Pilot Mall Voting Experience in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections 2023MANILA, Philippines — After the conduct of the long-awaited Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections, the Commission on Elections is eyeing to permanently replace schools with malls as voting sites and to conduct a special registration period to correct incomplete voter lists.
This comes after voters in some precincts complained that they could not find their name in the list of voters despite completing their registration. “But of course, this will require additional budget. And the fact that people will register again,” Garcia added.
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