Section 130Sec./Art. 130

Cancellation Due to Death, Conviction and Failure to Vote in Two Successive Preceding Elections by Election Registration Board. - The election registration board shall remove the voter's application for registration from the corresponding precinct book of voters of the following after entering therein the cause for cancellation and shall place them in the inactive file:

(a) Those who have since died as certified to at the end of each month by the local civil registrar.

(b) Those who have since been sentenced by final judgment to suffer an imprisonment of not less than one year or of having violated their allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines as certified to at the end of each month by the respective clerks of court of the court of first instance, city courts and the municipal judge.

(c) Those who did not vote in two successive preceding regular elections as shown by the voting records of each voter after the holding of an election.

The election registrar in behalf of the election registration board shall notify by mail or by personal delivery the registered voter of his cancellation and the ground thereof and require the surrender of his voter's identification card. In cases of death, all notices and requirements shall be directed to the voter's next of kin.

The names cancelled shall be published on the bulletin board immediately stating the reason for the cancellation and shall be reported to the Commission and the provincial election supervisor together with copies of the certified statements of the local civil registrar, the clerk of court of first instance, the clerk of the city court and the municipal judge. The provincial election supervisor and the Commission shall accordingly remove the application for registration of the voters and file them in the inactive file after entering in their respective application the cause for the cancellation of their registration.