The Commission on Elections (Comelec) received close to 2.3 million applications in the first month of the resumption of the continuing voter registration nationwide for the May 13, 2019, midterm polls.
Latest data from the Election and Barangay Affairs Department showed the poll body has already received 2,297,606 applications from July 2 to July 28. Of the total number of applications received and processed nationwide, 1,037,265 are male applicants while 1,260,341 are female.
It added that the number of application for registration were 1,054,067, while that for transfer of registration records numbered 895,246.
Applications for reactivation were 179,254; for change/correction of entries, 168,326; for inclusion of record in the book of voters, 441; and for reinstatement of name on the list of voters, 272.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez reported that many applicants have applied for the transfer of their registration records.