How to register as a voter for the 2025 BSKE
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MANILA, Philippines — Are you planning to register as a voter for the upcoming 2025 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE)? Here are the things you should know.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has set the voters’ registration period for August 1, 2025 (Friday) to August 10, 2025 (Sunday).
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The Comelec said that the registration is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays to Sundays (including holidays) at the Office of the Election Officer or Satellite Registration Sites nationwide. The poll body added that the Register Anywhere Program will be available in the National Capital Region only from August 1 to August 7.
The Comelec will accept the following applications:
- Registration
- Change of name and status
- Correction of entries
- Reactivation of registration records
- Inclusion of registration records and reinstatement of name in the list of voters
- Updating of records of Persons With Disabilities (PWD), senior citizens, and members of the indigenous peoples (IPs) and indigenous cultural communities (ICCs)
- Transfer from overseas to local only
Meanwhile, transfer of local registration records is not allowed during this registration period.
Who is eligible to register as a voter?
- For barangay elections: At least 18 years old on election day
- For Sangguniang Kabataan elections: At least 15 years old and not more than 30 years old on election day
- Philippine residents at least one year before the elections
- Residents of a place they want to vote in at least six months before the elections
- Those who are not declared by the authorities as “insane” or “incompetent”
- Those who did not receive final judgment of sentence of at least one year (that will not be removed by plenary pardon or amnesty)
- Those who did not receive final judgment of any charges involving lack of rights to the government (rebellion, sedition, violation of firearms law, crimes against national security)
What are requirements to bring to register as a voter?
Comelec says anyone can bring at least one of the following government-issued ID:
- National ID
- Postal ID
- PWD ID
- Student’s ID card or Library Card (with signature of school authority)
- Senior Citizen ID
- Driver’s licence or Student Permit
- National Bureau of Investigation Clearance
- Philippine passport
- Social Security System/Government Service Insurance System or Unified Multi-Purpose ID
- Integrated Bar of the Philippines ID
- Professional Regulatory Commission License
- Certificate of Confirmation from the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples for members of ICCs and IPs
- Other government-issued valid IDs
The Comelec noted that barangay certification or identification, community tax certificates (Cedula), Philippine National Police Clearance and Company ID will not be accepted.
Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia earlier announced that the poll body will no longer accept barangay certificates as a requirement for the voters’ registration. He cited mass issuance of barangay certificates that could enable irregular transfer of voter registration.
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Garcia previously shared that the poll body was asked by the Malacañang to comment on the proposed bill to extend the terms of elected officials of barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan. When asked about the response to the letter, Garcia cited the executive and legislative departments’ “executive prerogative” on the measure.
The Senate and the House of Representatives previously ratified a bill seeking to extend the elected officials’ term from the current three years to four years. Should this be enacted into law, the BSKE will be moved from December 1, 2025 to the first Monday of November 2026. /mr
