The Commission on Elections will temporarily suspend the biometric registration of voters from October 12 to 16 to give way to the filing of certificates of candidacy, Bacolod Comelec Registrar Mavil Majarucon-Sia said yesterday.

Majarucon-Sia said that since the deadline of registration is on October 31, voters will have only 45 days left to register.

Under Comelec's “No Bio, No Boto” policy on mandatory biometrics registration for the 2016 national and local elections, voters who have not been biometrically registered until October 31 will not be allowed to cast their ballot next year.

Based on the records of Comelec Bacolod as of July 20, there are about 1,232 voters in Bacolod City who have incomplete biometrics and about 6,342 who have no biometrics, or about 2 percent of the registered number of voters.

The total number of registered voters in Bacolod City is about 260,146.

Majarucon-Sia said if the voters have not been biometrically registered by October 31, their names will be deleted from the list of voters during the Election Registration Board hearing in November. The ERB hearing is being conducted quarterly.

She said the biometric registration will resume after the filing of COC from October 12 to 16.

Comelec–Bacolod is conducting satellite registration tomorrow at the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos, on September 12 at the second floor of Robinson's Place Bacolod, on Sept. 19 at Gaisano City and on Sept. 26 at SM City Bacolod, Majarucon-Sia said.

The University of St. La Salle has also requested Comelec to conduct satellite registration at their school on the third week of September, she added.* CGS

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