Comelec urged to extend overseas voter registration in key areas

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Imee Marcos on Monday appealed to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to reopen for at least two more weekends the overseas voter registration in Philippine embassies and consulates with the most number of still unregistered Filipinos.

“If possible…that we extend for at least two weekends [the voter registration] in the most populous or the consulates with the most Filipinos and allow our overseas workers to vote,” Marcos said during the Comelec’s budget hearing in the Senate.

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The poll body earlier

extended the registration of overseas Filipinos

from Oct. 1 to 14.

“I just wanted to make an appeal on behalf of our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) because their last day was last week, Oct. 14. For some reason or another they were not aware of that date or claim not to have been told and that they were believing, they were under the impression, that it was also Oct. 30 overseas,” Marcos pointed out.

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“We all know that the overseas voting takes place a month earlier than the local voting and that the Comelec needs time to prepare,” she added.