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Comelec mulls registration at malls for absentee voters

By Mayen Jaymalin | July 26, 2015 - 10:00am

Overseas Filipinos may also be allowed to register as voters in shopping malls.

Headlines

High OFW registrants attributed to increased awareness

By Sheila Crisostomo | June 19, 2014 - 12:00am

The high number of Filipinos abroad applying for voter’s registration could be attributed to heightened interest in...

Headlines

Comelec to conduct field registration for OFWs

By Sheila Crisostomo | May 26, 2014 - 12:00am

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will set up voter’s satellite registration in malls and churches abroad to encourage overseas Filipinos to register for the 2016 polls.

Headlines

Overseas voting rules improved

By Sheila Crisostomo | January 28, 2014 - 12:00am

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday that significant reforms have been instituted in the implementing guidelines of the Overseas Voting Act of 2013 or Republic Act 10590.

Headlines

Comelec eases rule on absentee voting

By Sheila Crisostomo | June 9, 2013 - 12:00am

Migrant Filipinos need not execute an affidavit of intent to return when they apply for voter’s registration, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.

Headlines

Absentee Voting Law must be disseminated abroad

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | August 14, 2003 - 12:00am

Seven and a half million Filipinos live abroad. That is about 10 percent of our population. This was because they could not find jobs in their own country. Now they are one of our biggest dollar producers. They send...

Opinion

EDITORIAL - Great legacy

May 22, 2003 - 12:00am

In her overseas trips, among the pieces of good news that President Arroyo brings to expatriate Filipinos is the passage of the absentee voting law.

Opinion