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Comelec OKs virtual applications, transactions for overseas absentee voter registration amid pandemic

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 19 06:16 PM

The Commission on Elections has authorized its Office for Overseas Voting (OFOV) to “use virtual, online, or electronic platforms to receive and process” overseas voting applications or transactions for the May 2022 elections, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read more »

Concert fundraiser by Fil-Ams aims to see youth registered for 2022 PH elections

Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Updated as of Jul 08 02:29 PM

The classical-music concert "Songs for Suffrage" aims to register millions of eligible youth voters in the Philippines for the 2022 national elections. Read more »

Comelec may paalala sa OFWs na balak bumoto sa 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 11 10:10 PM

Mataas ang inaasahang bilang ng overseas absentee voters na boboto sa halalan 2022, ayon sa Commission on Elections.  Read more »

Personal or postal? PH posts abroad to recommend modes of voting for 2022 polls - Comelec

Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 11 04:41 PM

MANILA - The modes of voting which will be used by different posts abroad for the Philippine national elections in 2022 has yet to be finalized, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday said. Read more »

Comelec sets new schedule to register as overseas voter

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 10:36 AM

MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday announced the new voter registration schedule for those intending to register as overseas voters in the Philippines ahead of the national and local elections in 2022. Read more »

US-based firm assures Comelec of credible, accurate voting system

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 15 08:46 PM

A US-based election solutions firm targeted by US President Donald Trump for alleged vote switching in the recently concluded US polls maintained its voting systems are credible and accurate, as the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) began Tuesday its consultation series for online voting for some 2-million overseas Filipino voters.   Read more »

Senators consider allowing overseas voters to elect congressmen

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 19 09:58 PM

MANILA - Several senators on Thursday said they consider allowing overseas voters to elect congressmen in a bid to entice more Filipinos abroad to exercise their right to suffrage. Read more »

Tolentino to question constitutionality of Overseas Absentee Voting Act provision

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 07:59 PM

Sen. Francis Tolentino said he would question before the Supreme Court the constitutionality of a provision in the Overseas Absentee Voting Act, which he said violates the "fundamental right to vote." Read more »

Ilang Pinoy sa Europa na di nakaboto, nagrereklamo

Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 15 01:13 PM

LONDON - Dismayado ang ilang Pilipino sa Europa dahil hindi sila nakaboto sa ilalim ng overseas absentee voting (OAV) na binuksan noon pang Abril.  Read more »

Mga Pinoy, humahabol sa huling araw ng OAV

Jackie de Vega, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 13 04:18 PM

PARIS, France – Sinikap ng maraming Pilipino ang makahabol sa huling araw ng pagboto para sa midterm polls sa Pilipinas sa kabila ng mga isyung kinakaharap ng overseas voting sa iba’t-ibang panig ng mundo. Read more »

Botohan ng mga Pinoy sa Europa, dinagsa ng reklamo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 11 02:21 AM

Sa huling linggo ng botohan sa Europa, kaliwa't kanan ang reklamo ng mga botante. Read more »

Ilang mga Pinoy sa Italya, hindi pa nakatatanggap ng balota

Jackie de Vega, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
Posted at May 09 10:20 PM

Nasa huling linggo na ng voting period para sa mga Pilipino sa ibang bansa, pero ang ilan sa kanila sa Roma, hindi pa rin nakatatanggap ng balota. Read more »

Balota mula sa Dutch Caribbean at seafarers, tatanggapin ng PH post sa The Netherlands

Jofelle Tesorio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 08 08:21 PM

THE HAGUE – Ang embahada ng Pilipinas sa The Netherlands ay tatanggap na rin ng mga balota mula sa mga Pilipinong nakabase sa Dutch Caribbean.   Read more »

PH post in Vancouver receives returned overseas absentee ballots

Marieton Pacheco, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 07 06:02 PM

Philippine consulate officials said that an estimated 1,000 ballots have been returned so far due to incorrect addresses of registered voters. Read more »

Fil-Am activists in San Francisco protest overseas ballot delays

TJ Manotoc, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 07 05:41 PM

The Filipino American Human Rights Alliance and the US Pinoys for Good Governance banded together outside of the Philippine Consulate here clamoring for their ballots. Read more »

Ballot receptacles na selyado ng tape, pinuna ng mga Pinoy sa France

Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 07 05:28 PM

Pinuna sa social media ng Filipino community sa France ang ballot receptacles na sinelyohan lang sa pamamagitan ng brown plastic tape. Read more »

Comelec to replace bleeding pens for May polls

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 03 02:03 PM

MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday assured the public that it would send replacement markers immediately after incidents of blotting pens were reported during overseas absentee voting (OAV) in Philippine missions around the world.  Read more »

Botohan ng mga Pinoy sa Italy inulan ng reklamo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 02 09:09 PM

May ilang reklamo ang mga Pinoy sa Europa sa pagpapatuloy ng overseas absentee voting. Read more »

Overseas absentee voter turnout to surpass 2007,2013 polls: DFA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 30 11:48 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is confident that the Overseas Absentee Voters' turnout of the 2019 senatorial elections will surpass the turnouts in the midterm polls of 2007 and 2013. Read more »

Delay in OAV ballots worries Fil-Am voters

Don Tagala, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 27 07:51 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Filipino-Americans became worried when they did not receive their overseas absentee voting ballot one week into the voting period. Read more »