The Commission on Elections announced today that Detainee Voters are allowed to vote for “national positions” only. This is in compliance with the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued by the Supreme Court last 19 April 2016, and with the latest amended COMELEC Resolution Nos. 10112 & 10113, promulgated last 3 May 2016.
In the nine-paged TRO issued in the case of Aguinaldo v. New Bilibid Prison (Bureau of Corrections) et. al., G.R. No. 221201, the Court prevented the Commission from enforcing several provisions of COMELEC Resolution No. 9371, which regulates detainee voting. In gist, it orders the poll body to limit elections for detainees to the positions of president, vice president, senators, and parties and organizations under the party-list system only.
Source: Committee on Detainee Voting