CEBU CITY – Following positive feedback for the pilot mall-voting here during the Oct. 30 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections, poll officials are considering adapting the same to more areas in 2025 midterm polls.
Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano,
Commission on Elections (COMELEC)-Central Visayas regional director, said the
election body is looking at the possibility of putting polling centers at malls
in Cebu and other areas in the region that may be used during the national
elections.
"Mall voting is in line with
the mission of the Comelec to enhance voting experience. But with the number of
voters, dili pa gyud kaya tanan in malls by 2025," Castillano told the
Philippine News Agency, citing the accessibility, convenience, and security as
advantages of holding polls in malls rather than having the usual casting of
ballots in schools.
Castillano said from voting to
canvassing of ballots in the malls in the next elections could go hybrid,
"subject to the availability of space" in establishments that would
want to lend their resources for this political activity.
In Cebu, two villages Pari-an
here city and Pitogo in Consolacion town, participated in the pilot mall
voting. Residents of Pari-an cast their ballots at the Robinsons Galleria in
the North Reclamation Area here and those from Pitogo went to SM Consolacion.
(John Rey Saavedra)
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