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More than 1.6M OFWs set to vote

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More than 1.6 million registered overseas voters around the globe are expected to cast their vote in the different Philippine posts, embassies, or consulates, starting April 10,  the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said.

Filipinos abroad will only vote for president, vice president, senators, and party-list groups, the poll body said.
Data from the Comelec–Office for Overseas Voting showed that the Middle East and African region have the highest number of voters with 786,997 followed by the Asia Pacific with 450,282, the Americas with 306,445, and Europe with 153,491.

Of the 92 Philippine posts, 46 will be using the automated election system, 46 shall use the manual system, 52 shall use the postal method of voting, 24 the personal voting, and 16 will use mixed voting.

The Comelec said it may suspend the voting in some areas such as in Iraq, Algeria, Chad, Tunisia, Libya, Afghanistan, and Ukraine due to ongoing conflict.  

The Comelec has set the overseas voting from April 10 to May 9.

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Earlier, the Comelec said close to 10.5 million registered voters in the country have been either deactivated or deleted from the list of voters for the May 9 polls.

Data from the poll body revealed that a total of 7,236,952 deactivated voters and 3,246,262 names have been deleted from the voter’s list.

Of the number, 7,229,493 were deactivated due to their failure to vote in the last two national elections, 3,993 were excluded due to court orders and 2,718 were declared insane or incompetent by authorities.

Also deactivated were 536 voters who were sentenced to more than one-year imprisonment, 134 who failed to validate, 52 who lost their Filipino citizenship; and 26 who were sentenced for committing crimes against national security.

For deleted voters, 1,490,678 voters transferred to another city/municipality; 892,627 were double registrants, and 755,769 already died.

Also deleted are 64,320 with double entries; and 42,868 who applied as overseas voters.

There were a total of 6,950,449 newly registered voters while there were 1,520,500 Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) voters, who have or will turn 18 years old by Election Day, and have been included automatically in the voters’ list.

The country has a total of 65,831,792 registered voters for the forthcoming polls.

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