The Commission on Elections and Department of Foreign Affairs today announced that the number of overseas voters for the 2019 national elections has reached an all-time high of 1,600,746.
This number has surpassed the previous record of 1,376,067 for the 2016 Presidential Elections according to DFA-Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS).
At the current rate of the Overseas Voter registration, the DFA-OVS said it is confident that by the end of registration period in 30 September 2018, there will be around 1.9 million overseas voters for the 2019 national elections.
"This is the product of hard-work of the men and women of our Foreign Service and the Commission on Elections who are encouraging more overseas Filipinos to exercise their right to vote," said COMELEC's Luie Tito F. Guia who is Commissioner in charge of overseas voting.
"Our media partners, bloggers and other Overseas Voter stakeholders are also playing an important role in creating awareness among our countrymen abroad," added Guia.
At the same time, he encouraged qualified Filipinos Abroad to register.
He said all Filipino citizens who expect to be abroad from 13 April - 13 May 2019 during the overseas voting period for the 2019 Elections, at least 18 years old on 13 May 2019, and not otherwise disqualified by law, may register as an overseas voter, at the abovementioned locations or at the nearest Philippine Foreign Service Posts abroad including the three (3) Manila Economic and Cultural Offices (MECO) in Taiwan. For an updated list please go to www.dfa-oavs.gov.ph or www.comelec.gov.ph.
For brief videos on overseas voter registration, kindly go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqKFixPsMCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVgzivQ-x18
Source: DFA-OVS