BARELY three weeks before the end of the voter registration period, registration centers around the country remain almost empty as there have been very few applicants since the Commission on Elections (Comelec) opened the registration period on Dec. 12, 2022.

Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia on Tuesday disclosed that only 400,000 have so far applied for registration which, he said, was below the poll body's expectation of 1.5 million to 2 million new registrants at the end of the registration period on January 31.

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