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| | SWS Media Release |
 | | SWS had to combine 43,286,495 registered voters from COMELEC's 15 April 2004 release, which lacked data for 5 municipalities and 1 city, with 163,061 registered voters obtained from previous COMELEC releases and local COMELEC offices for the missing data, to obtain a total of 43.45 million registered voters. |
 | | Missing from COMELEC's 15 April 2004 release of 43,286,495 registered voters are counts for Dapitan City in Zamboanga del Norte, Siasi in Sulu, and Bongao, Languyan, Panglima Sugala and Sitangkai towns in Tawi-Tawi. |
 | | The missing data for Sulu and Tawi-Tawi were taken from the 29 March 2004 COMELEC release of registered voters, while data for Dapitan City were obtained from the local COMELEC office. |
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