Comelec biometric registration scheduled Sundays in Baguio City

BAGUIO CITY  — The Commission on Elections has launched off-site biometric registration of voters every Sunday to validate all voters in the city and allow them to cast their votes in 2016.

Mayor Mauricio Domogan was the first who validated his registration through the off-site registration at City Hall last Monday.

“There were many who availed of the biometrics off-site validation, and with the number we obtained, we consider it successful and effective to do every week in all the barangays in the city,” said Baguio City Election Officer John Paul Martin.

The first satellite registration will be for residents of Barangay Aurora Hill in District 19. It will be held on Sunday at the Immaculate Concepcion Parish.

They expect to finish registration of residents of all 128 barangays by November.

Baguio’s 149,000 registered voters increased to 150,000 because of the new voters. But about 29,000 of them will lose the chance to vote in May 2016 if they do not comply with the biometrics registration.