SC asked to strike down ‘no bio, no boto’

Youth and students groups on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to nullify the “No Bio, No Boto” campaign of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), saying it would deprive more than three million voters of their right to vote in next year’s elections.

The petitioners led by Kabataan party-list Rep. Terry Ridon argued that the biometrics validation and deactivation provisions of Republic Act (RA) 10367 or the Mandatory Biometrics Voter Registration Law are an “unconstitutional substantial requirement imposed on the exercise of suffrage.”