Filipinos in Singapore included in Overseas Absentee Voting
Singapore included in automated polls for overseas absentee voting
By Pia Lee-Brago
The Philippine Star March 09, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to include Singapore in the conduct of automated elections for overseas absentee voting (OAV), the Philippine Embassy in Singapore said yesterday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Hong Kong was the only other foreign service post in Asia where automated elections will be conducted. Singapore has the second highest number of registered overseas absentee voters in Asia at 31,851.
Hong Kong has 95,355 overseas absentee voters.
OAV will be conducted for 30 days, from April 10 to May 10, in all other Philippine embassies and consulates either by postal or manual voting.
Nine precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines will be delivered to the Philippine embassy in Singapore.
At the end of the 30-day voting period, the poll results will be transmitted to the Comelec in the Philippines a few hours after the close of voting.
Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Minda Cruz reminded registered voters to vote as early as possible.
Cruz called on all registered overseas absentee voters to exercise their right of suffrage early, preferably during the first two weeks of voting, instead of waiting for the last week, to avoid long queues in the embassy.
Overseas absentee voters can only vote for the national elective positions of president, vice president, 12 senators and one (1) party-list representative, but not for local positions.
Registered voters in Singapore will be required to vote in person at the Philippine embassy at 20 Nassim Road from 9 am to 5 pm, except on the last day of voting when it will close at 6 pm.
Voters must bring their valid Philippine passport and identification card (PR card, S-Pass, E-Pass or Work Permit).
Voters can check if his/her name is in the Certified List of Overseas Absentee Voters (CLOAV) found in the Comelec website (www.comelec.gov.ph). Only those whose name appears in the CLOAV will be allowed to vote.
Sir/Madame,
I’m just pleased for the filipinos OFW in Singapore that they can vote for the first time ever machine.
I’m just hoping also here in Canada we can have it one day also. I try to locate the site if your name is on the regestered voters list but I could’t.
Anyway, good luck to all candidates…..
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am trying to fined your web pages for the list of all the name’s of the absente voters, and i can find any. I have a little concernd with this. why the comelic is a little back wards to what we should expected. You have the date to vote but were is our list name for the candedates and the list of regested absente voters so we can check it,You should have posting that on your website. One more a guide line for the voters we cannot just go there and learned what we should know on that period of the. comfusion will be accord for the new voters. just a concerned. God bless you all and God will speak to bought voters and candedates.
thank you,