Section 131Sec./Art. 131

Cancellation of Previous Registration. - Any registered voter who, after approval of his application for registration, has suffered any of the disqualifications set out in Section one hundred two hereof, may request for the cancellation of his registration by personally filing a sworn application for said cancellation, setting forth the ground or grounds therefor, with the election registration board which shall proceed to verify the truth thereof and, once established, shall cancel the voter's registration and issue the certificate of cancellation to the voter.

The election registration board concerned shall upon receipt of the application for cancellation of the registration remove his application for registration from the corresponding precinct book of voters, which shall be placed in inactive file, and issue the certificate of cancellation to the voter by registered mail or personally. The election registration board shall enter the corresponding notations in the application for registration of said request for cancellation.

The election registrar shall preserve all applications for cancellation and shall report all cancellations made by him under this section to the Commission and to the provincial election supervisor for their corresponding action. The names of the voters cancelled shall be posted in the bulletin board for thirty days.