Only 303 Filipino voters cast their ballots on the 10th
day of the overseas voting for the 2016 Philippine national elections at the Bayanihan
Centre in Kennedy
Town
This contrasted sharply with the previous day’s tally of 6,367
voters, a record for this year's election.
With 21 days left in the month-long elections, the total ballots cast in the past 10 days represent roughly 16% of the more than 93,000 registered voters in
The figure for Monday was the second-lowest daily total in
Yesterday’s figure brought to 14,503 the total number of
people who cast their votes to elect a successor to President Benigno Aquino
III, his vice-president, Jejomar Binay, eight new senators and a partylist.
If the turnout trend continues over the remaining three
weeks of the elections, the overall turnout for the Hong
Kong overseas balloting would be about 50%, far below the 80% goal
set by the Commission on Elections for all overseas posts.
This is partly because many would-be voters have not been
able to cast their ballots because they had either been deactivated by the Comelec
for failing to vote in two previous national elections, or their names were
dropped from the official list for some other reason.
On Apr 17, the heaviest day so far in the elections, about
50 people found to their disappointment their registration had been de-activated, said Vice Consul Fatima Quintin.
About 30 others were dropped from the Comelec list even if
they had registered in Hong Kong , while others
failed to transfer their registration from elsewhere.
Those who had been inadvertently dropped from the official
list were able to vote after Comelec gave the Consulate the go signal through
an exchange of viber messages. - Vir B. Lumicao
