Comelec revives online precinct finder system

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With only over two months before the May 9 elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is now preparing the revival of the online precinct finder system, which was last used during the 2016 national elections.

In a statement, the Comelec said it is now readying the system, which it said would be made available outside the poll body’s website.

“Once the Precinct Finder and Post Finder are activated, they will also be made available on Rappler’s website,” said Elections spokesman James Jimenez.

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“This move will make these services more mobile-responsive and provide voters easy access to important information, especially on Election Day,” he added.

It was back in the 2013 elections when the Comelec introduced the online Precinct Finder system, where the voter will only need to enter his/her name and birthday for the system to provide their exact precinct number, voting center, and status of voters’ ID of the registered voter.

Come the 2016 polls, the Anonymous Philippines, defaced the poll body’s website (www.comelec.gov.ph), which affected the precinct finder, video demonstrations, and the search functions.

Last October, the Comelec announced its plans to revive the precinct finder system in time for the May 2022 elections.

Making the system available in Rappler’s website is part of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) set to be signed by the Comelec and the online news agency today.

Meanwhile, the Comelec yesterday announced that Satellite Emergency Accessible Polling Places (S-EAPP) will be established at the Hospicio de San Jose, Tahanang Walang Hagdanan in Rizal, and National Vocational Rehabilitation Center in Quezon City to cater to persons with disability (PWDs), senior citizens (SCs), and pregnant women voters.

“S-EAPP refers to an EAPP temporarily established in a building used as a home or residence of PWDs and/or SCs, including rehabilitation centers and sheltered workshops, where said PWDs and/or SCs are living or outside thereof but in close proximity to, whether administered by the government or a private institution,” the Comelec said in Resolution No. 10761.

The poll body said allowed to vote in S-EAPPs are PWD and elderly voters who did not avail of voting in Accessible Polling Places (APPs), PWD voters who failed to update their registration records during the continuing registration of voters, voters who become disabled (temporarily or permanently) after the continuing registration of voters ended, and heavily pregnant voters who are six months on the family way.

The said sectors will also be allowed to have assistors, who may be a relative by consanguinity or affinity within the 4th civil degree, by any person of their confidence who belongs to the same household such as personal caregiver and nurse, or by an S-EAPP support staff.

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