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Commission on Elections-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano. (PNA photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Oriental is now investigating "misleading information" that the poll body is still accepting applications for voter registration for the May 9 elections. Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano, Comelec-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor, told the Philippine News Agency on Thursday that his office has received information about fake news circulating on social media and other platforms that somebody is telling or asking people to register for the upcoming polls. "The Comelec condemns this fake news using the agency's name as we have long since ended our registration of voters," Castillano said in mixed English and Cebuano. He cited Republic Act 8189 or the General Registration and Continuing Registration Act which does not allow the registration of voters 120 d ....

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