How to vote tomorrow

MANILA, Philippines - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) shares some reminders on how to verify voter registration status and how to vote during the country’s second automated polls tomorrow.

To check voter’s registration, visit the poll body’s Precinct Finder at www.comelec.gov.ph.

Voting starts at 7 a.m. and ends at 7 p.m. in all polling precincts.

The Comelec has listed the voting procedures in its Voter’s Information and Instruction Sheet, which is being used in the voter’s education campaign.

Here are the voting procedures:

• Bring valid identification cards and proceed to your designated polling/voting center.

• Upon arriving at the polling center, look for your precinct assignment.

• Look for your name and sequence number on the list of voters posted at the door of your assigned polling precinct.

• If there is a queue, fall in line. Otherwise go directly to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), state your name and sequence number.

• Give priority to pregnant women, the elderly, detainees and persons with disabilities. There must be an express lane for them.

• The BEI will verify your identity before you sign the Computerized Voter’s List.

• The BEI chairman will then give you a marking pen and a ballot placed in a ballot secrecy folder. Make sure that the ballot does not have any shaded ovals.

• Make sure that your hands are clean so that ballots will not be stained.

• Proceed to your voting area and start voting. Shade the ovals corresponding to the names of your candidates and party-list group.

• After voting, place the ballot inside the folder then feed the ballot into the PCOS machine. Wait for the words “Congratulations, your vote has been registered” to appear on the PCOS screen.

• Return the ballot secrecy folder and marking pen to the BEI.

• Have your finger stained with indelible ink before leaving the polling precinct.

The Comelec warned voters that vote selling is punishable with imprisonment of not less than one year.