Senate Bill 1030, authored by Senator Lito Lapid, requires all registered voters whose biometrics have not been captured to appear before election officers and have their photographs, fingerprints, signatures and other identifiable features be captured through biometrics.
Under the measure, the photographs, fingerprints, signature and other identifiable features will be stored by the data capturing machine of the automated election system that has been adopted by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
Senator Koko Pimentel, chair of the electoral reforms panel, said SB 1030 will allow a "thorough cleansing of the national voters’ registry that will reduce, if not eliminate, cheating and sure that the result of elections are reflective of the genuine will of the people.”
“We can ensure that the automated fingerprint identification system, the AFIS, may be utilized to rid the national voters registration of double or multiple registrants,” he said in his sponsorship speech.
Pimentel said that voters who fail to submit their validation in time for the 2013 elections despite due notice shall be deactivated from the record of voters by the Election Registration Board (ERB) concerned.
Those deactivated, however, may apply for reactivation after they have undergone the validation process under Republic Act No. 8189.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Kimberly Jane Tan
Quelle/Source: GMA News, 12.11.2012
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