216,176 enlist for overseas voting

Published by rudy Date posted on September 3, 2009

MANILA, Philippines — A total of 216,176 new overseas absentee voters (OAV) registered in various posts abroad for the May 2010 presidential election in the six-month registration period that ended August 31, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Wednesday.

The new registrants represented about 22 percent of the DFA’s target of one million new absentee voters for next year’s election.

The DFA, however, said it was still awaiting the final tally from the various registration posts abroad.

According to the DFA, the following foreign service posts recorded the highest number of registrants: Hong Kong (21,905), Los Angeles (13,205), Dubai (12,477), Singapore (11,296), New York (6,496), Riyadh (6,120), London (5,821), Tokyo (5,257), Taipei (5,243), and Toronto (4,873).

Another 19,644 new voters registered at the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA), 14,990 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), 6,869 at the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa), and 6,319 at the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO). –Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, INQUIRER.net

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