Overseas Filipinos are the first to cast their votes in the high-stakes, pandemic-era 2022 Philippine elections. PHVote WeDecide
They will vote either by personal mode, which involves going to the Philippine posts personally to accomplish their ballots, or by postal mode, wherein voters will receive their ballots via mail and send them back to the embassy.
For instance, voters in the US and Canada, the third and fifth most vote-rich countries in 2022, should expect to receive their ballots after April 10, the Commission on Elections said. Nerissa Allegretti of 1Sambayan USA, one of the community leaders who called out the possible disenfranchisement, said that ballots were mailed to them as early as March in previous elections.
Nongovernment organization Center for Migrant Advocacy also earlier raised possible issues in the conduct of overseas voting due to limited funds. The government granted a P111.9-million budget for the overseas elections, which was “half of what was given in 2007,” Director Bea Wee-Lozada of the Comelec Office for Overseas Voting said in a House hearing on February 2.
Turnout per major area – comparing Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas – has
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