A invoice looking for to ascertain an automatic and on-line system for voter registration has been filed within the Senate.
Senator Mark Villar has filed Senate Bill 2254 to encourage residents to register as voter registration “appears to be a time consuming and exhausting process, and could be the main reason why many qualified citizens are deterred from registering, rendering them unable to participate during the elections.”
Under the proposed regulation, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) shall, so far as practicable, undertake, design, and use an automatic and on-line system for voter registration that allows the digital and on-line submitting and processing of the appliance for registration, switch of registration, reactivation, correction of voter registration entries, and such different requests and processes relative to the voter’s registration and information.
The Comelec shall additionally use the identical automated and on-line system for the verification and approval of registrations.
If the net verification of the appliance or request just isn’t possible within the meantime, Villar proposed that the system shall enable the applicant to submit his or her software or request by means of the Comelec’s on-line platform.
The identical software and the knowledge contained therein, together with the demographics of the applicant, shall be processed electronically, and shall be routinely saved within the Comelec database for pending voter registration software or requests. The system shall promptly present the applicant with full and detailed info as to the steps required to finish the appliance or request.
Villar included a provision in SB 2254 the place the applicant can be routinely knowledgeable of the profitable submission of his or her software or request.
The system shall additionally present an in depth instruction on how the applicant might observe up or full the appliance for registration or requests, the estimated time to finish the processing of the appliance or request, particulars on the discover of approval or disapproval, additional treatments out there in case of disapproval, and such different info essential to promptly help the applicant along with his or her software or request.
Further, the invoice mandates the Comelec to design, devise, undertake, or use a safe web web site or on-line platform the place functions could also be filed by voters and candidates.
Security measures shall be ensured to guard the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of voter registration varieties, functions and knowledge submitted and filed by means of such web web site or on-line platform.
The invoice likewise proposed that inside 10 days from the effectivity of the proposed regulation, the Comelec shall implement a program the place individuals registered below the present National ID Program shall be routinely registered as voter of the place of their declared residence upon reaching the allowable voting age.
While Villar proposed the creation of an automatic and on-line voter registration system, he mentioned Comelec workplaces shall proceed accepting functions throughout workplace hours.
The same invoice was filed by Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva final July 14,2022. —Hana Bordey/KBK, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
