The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has deactivated more than 4.2 million voters from its records, the poll body's top official said.

In a message to reporters, Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said that this number will be deducted from the present number of voters, which is 68 million.

According to Garcia, these were deactivated after the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE).

Based on the records provided by Garcia, the majority of the deactivation was due to the registrants' failure to vote in two successive preceding regular elections as shown in their voting records. 

Region IV-A had the highest number of deactivations, with 733,245.

Other instances cited for the deactivation were exclusion per court order, failure to validate, loss of Filipino citizenship, sentence by final judgement to suffer imprisonment for not less than one year,  and sentence by final judgement of having committed any crime involving disloyalty to the duly constituted government or any crime against national security.