Overseas Absentee Voting in Singapore and Hongkong starts Saturday according to Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal. This will the country’s first, outside of the country of course. It’s set April 10.

Voting for national positions

Overseas voters may only elect the President, Vice President, 12 senators and one party-list representative.

The OAV involves three modes of voting: automated counting in Hong Kong and Singapore, personal voting, and postal voting.

The DFA thus reminded voters of the automated and personal modes of voting to bring their passports or other personal identification documents.

In the automated mode, voters will have their names verified against the list of registered voters by the Special Board of Election Inspectors, similar to the process in the Philippines.

Voters will be given a ballot, a folder and a pen, and will then be directed to the voting area.

Candidates’ names will be listed in alphabetical order on the ballot, and voters will have to shade the ovals beside the names of their chosen candidates.

The ballot will then be fed into the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machine which will read the votes on both sides of the ballot.

The voters’ index finger will be marked with indelible ink, and they will affix their thumb mark in the list of voters.

The same process goes for personal voting, except that a compartment will be provided for voters to drop their ballots in.

Postal voters

Postal voters meanwhile will receive a mailing packet containing their ballot and the ballot envelope.

They will have to accomplish the ballot, affix their right thumb mark at the lower portion, tear off that portion and place it inside the ballot envelope.

Before sending their ballots back by mail to their respective Embassies or Consulates General, voters will have to affix their name and signature on the left-hand corner of the ballot envelopes.

An illustrated instruction on postal voting can be found here.

Registered Filipino seafarers may likewise personally vote at the Embassy or Consulate General where they are currently docked.

Votes will be counted at the Embassy or Consulate General where the votes were sent or cast.

The DFA said the counting will start immediately after the close of polling precincts, and will be done uninterrupted in public until all the votes have been counted.

(Source: GMA News)

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