Since last Friday, October 1, until October 13, the Commission of Elections Offices all throughout the country shall be opened to accept certificates of candidacies from 8:00 to 5:00 including Saturdays and Sundays.
This as the Comelec has started receiving certificates of candidacies for barangay positions for the October 25 synchronized barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (SK).
In the next 13 days, some 17,744 persons would be preparing in flurry, activities leading to generating support through votes to launch them to the 1,109 barangay seats made available by law through the synchronized elections.
All appointed or elected officials who decide to grab the chance to go down and get the vacant post are deemed resigned ipso-facto on the same day they file their candidacies.
And to make the job of the commission easier, the local Comelec can make outright denials of candidates if they could not prove their residence requirement or their being registered voters of the area they are interested in getting elected.
In fact, Bohol Election Supervisor, Atty. Eliseo Labaria said the resignation is effective 5:00 am of the same day they file their candidacies, over at Kapihan sa PIA September 30 and aired live over DyTR.
By election day, October 25 after 3:00 pm, new barangay officials would have been proclaimed although the results need to be transmitted to the town halls where the municipal election offices are located.
Considering the distance and the transport of these election returns, Atty. Ricardo Villares, election officer of Bohol town with the most numerous barangays, the over-all results could be had after a day, or October 26.
Villares, who is Loon town’s election officer shall be directly responsible for the election processes of 67 barangays whom, voters would all undergo the polls through the manual system.
Instead of an automatic machine to discard or accept legitimate votes, the manual system hands to the Board of Election Tellers (BET) the responsibility to appreciate the written votes.
The BET decides whether the ballot would be counted as valid, marked as a counter-sign to assure vote buyers that the vote was indeed delivered, Atty Labaria said.
Over the possible deluge of voters on the election day, Comelec has already adopted through a resolution the clustering of precincts of less than 500 voters who will have to make their votes from 8:00 to 3:00 on October 25, according to Labaria. (rac/PIABohol)
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