Comelec eyeing raps
vs. makers of fake IDs
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Charges for falsification of public documents is being mulled by the Commission on Elections Bacolod Field Office against those who provided false identification cards to registrants for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections during the 10-day registration period.

Bacolod Election Officer Mavil Majarucon-Sia yesterday said that because of the Pangilinan law, the minors involved have no liability. It is the people behind this who should be made answerable, as well as the minors’ parents because they are still under parental authority.

Majarucon-Sia said more than 30 persons reportedly falsified documents of the COMELEC in order to be registered and this includes minors and those believed to be residents of Brgy. Singcang-Airport.

156,172 registered
to vote in Negros
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Commission on Elections had registered 102,045 Sangguniang Kabataan voters throughout Negros Occidental as of Wednesday, which is an unusually high number compared to figures in the past, Provincial Elections Supervisor Jessie Suarez said yesterday.

The figure covers the SK registrants during the 10-day registration period, who must be 18 years old on or before the SK and barangay elections on October 28.

The number of new voter registrants for the barangay elections in Negros Occidental was 54,127, Comelec figures at the end of the 10-day registration period also showed.

Police expect intense
poll rivalry in October
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

The Philippine National Police expects intense political rivalries among candidates in Negros Occidental during the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 28.

This is because rivalries at the barangay level are mostly personal and candidates live in the same place, Senior Supt. Milko Lirazan, provincial police director, said yesterday.

Lirazan, however, assured that they have security plans to ensure peaceful elections.