Comelec deactivates over 4M voter registrations

As of Thursday, over 4.2 million voter registrations have been deactivated for various reasons, according to data from the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

The majority of these deactivations, totaling 4,237,054, are due to voters failing to vote in two consecutive regular elections.

Other reasons include exclusion by court order, failure to validate registration, loss of Filipino citizenship, and criminal sentences involving disloyalty or national security crimes.

Calabarzon topped the list with 733,245 deactivations, followed by Central Luzon with 503,280; while the Cordillera Administrative Region had the least at 69,108.

Comelec chairman George Erwin Garcia noted that these deactivations occurred after the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections held in October last year, and the number may continue to increase in the coming months.