No, this post does not contain accurate figures for registered voters in the Philippine midterm elections
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- Published on June 13, 2019 at 11:30
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- By AFP Philippines
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The false claim was published in this Facebook post on February 15, 2019. It has been shared more than 3,700 times.
Below is a screenshot of the post:
The Tagalog-language post translates to English as: "We have 50 million Registered voters. Then Jimenez had 61 million valid ballots printed. For whom are the 11 million?"
"Jimenez" refers to James Jimenez, the spokesman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the government agency responsible for running elections. Here is his LinkedIn profile.
The Philippines held its midterm elections on May 13; here is an announcement on the Comelec website.
This is an AFP report published on May 22, 2019, about the results.
Another Facebook post with a similar claim was published here on February 15, 2019, and has been shared more than 700 times.
The claim is false; official data from the Philippines' Commission on Elections shows there are more than 63 million registered voters.
Official figures from Comelec published in 2019 here showed there were 61,843,771 registered voters in the Philippines for the elections.
Below is a screenshot of the official number of registered voters on the Comelec website:
Comelec data shows an additional 1,822,173 Filipinos living abroad were registered for the midterm elections.
Below is a screenshot of that data:
Based on Comelec data, the total number of registered voters for the midterm elections was 63,665,944.
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