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Too little time to purge new voters' list Aug 9th 2013, 23:47 MANILA, Philippines—An elections commissioner is worried that the poll body may not have enough time to purge illegal registrants from the list of more than 1.8 million new barangay voters.   The huge number of new voters was more than twice the expected turnout for the barangay elections, noted Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Grace Padaca.   Padaca said there was simply not enough time to screen the 1,805,917 new registrants using the Comelec's Automated Fingerprint Identification System (Afis).   Last month's registration was marred by allegations that politicians used the "hakot system" or herded their supporters to registe... Keep on reading: Too little time to purge new voters' list Media files: grace-padaca.jpg (image/jpeg)

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