The registration of voters in Negros Occidental for the May 2013 polls will be suspended from June 25 to July 31, as the entire Commission on Elections staff of the province is being sent to Sulu, Provincial Elections Supervisor Jessie Suarez said yesterday.

The 53 COMELEC personnel of Negros Occidental, including Suarez, and their 133 counterparts from the rest of Western Visayas and Region IV have been assigned to conduct a general registration of voters in Sulu from July 9 to 18.

The COMELEC, which has purged the entire list of voters in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, is conducting the general registration of voters, not only in Sulu, but in the provinces of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi, Suarez said.

COMELEC Resolution 9443 said non-ARRM COMELEC personnel and equipment are being brought in “to effect an honest and credible registration of voters” and “establish a clean, complete, permanent and updated list of voters in the ARMM region.”

COMELEC personnel and equipment from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are being sent to the ARRM, Suarez said.

The COMELEC personnel from Negros Occidental will bring the 31 Voter Registration Machines of the province to Sulu for voter demographics and biometrics data capturing, Suarez said.*CPG

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