NEARLY 1.4 million overseas Filipinos are registered voters in this year’s polls. They will be voting starting April 9 through five modes, including the automated election system (AES), postal manual voting, personal AES, manual voting and modified postal manual system. Find out how many they are and where they are in these visualizations: *Regions not
By CHERRY JOY VENILES A decade after Overseas Absentee Voting for Filipinos residing abroad was signed into law, many remain skeptical regarding the practicality and value of mounting a campaign to bring in the overseas Filipino vote. But with more than 10 million Filipinos overseas in 200 countries and $23 billion in remittances for 2012 alone,
By MIKHA FLORES OVERSEAS absentee voters (OAV) who are eligible to vote in the May 13 elections total almost a million after the Commission on Elections reversed an earlier resolution that would have disenfranchised close to 240,000 voters who failed to vote in the past two elections. “In effect, we are reinstating the list of those
