RA 8189 (The Voter's Registration Act of 1996) Section 23

Provincial File.

Section 23

SEC. 23. Provincial File. – There shall be a provincial file consisting of the duplicate copies of all registration records in each precinct of every city and municipality in the province. It shall be in the custody of the Provincial Election Supervisor and shall be compiled and arranged by precinct, by municipality and alphabetically by surnames of voters. Should the book of voters in the custody of the Election Officer be lost or destroyed at a time so close to Election Day that there is no time to reconstitute the same, the corresponding book of voters in the provincial file shall be used during the voting.

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