Photos from COMELEC Education and Information Department
A total of 306 of more than 700 qualified detainees applied for registration during the Special Registration last Aug. 9 at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City.
Detainees, as defined in Comelec Resolution 9371, are those who are "confined in jail, formally charged for any crimes and awaiting or undergoing trial, or; serving a sentence of imprisonment for less than one year."
Detainees also include "whose conviction of a crime involving disloyalty to the duly constituted government such as rebellion, sedition, violation of the firearms law or any crime against national security or for any other is on appeal."
Including the registrants from the Correctional Institution in Mandaluyong, there are a total of 532 total female detainees who registered for the 2019 National and Local Elections in various satellite registrations nation-wide as of Aug. 22, 2018.
As of writing, the rest of Regional Offices are yet to submit their data from more than 100 detention centers and jail facilities that will hold special registrations until Sep. 29, 2018. ***