The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod is urging the Commission on Elections to provide separate voting venues for senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and those with comorbidities, during the May 9 elections.
The appeal contained in a resolution authored by Councilor Renecito Novero was unanimously approved by the SP during its regular session Wednesday, January 5.
Novero, in the resolution, pointed out that COVID-19 and its variants continue to plague the world, the Philippines and Bacolod City in unpredictable proportions.
“It is generally considered that senior citizens and those suffering from certain comorbidities are of weaker immune system and resistance against the virulence of this virus and its variants,” he said.
There will most likely be thousands of electors who will flock to polling places on May 9 that will lengthen the waiting time of voters, he said.
“Such overcrowding situation can be unhealthful and risky to the senior citizens and persons suffering from comorbidities…as well as agonizing and unfriendly to Persons with Disabilities,” he said.*