“Given the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic, it is necessary to extend the voter registration, in order to give unregistered Filipinos of voting age ample time to register, and eventually exercise their constitutional right to vote and avoid disenfranchisement of large number of qualified voters,” the senators said in filing the bill.
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, who proposed the filing of the bill, even suggested that the Senate maySenator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III was the only senator who did not join the filing of the bill.Pimentel asked his colleagues regarding the reasons cited by the Comelec in resisting Congress’ call to extend the voter registration period.
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