By Daisy CL Mandap
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| The total turnout with 4 days left in overseas voting is now at a high 56% |
More than 2,000 voters, mostly from the local chapter of the
Iglesia ni Cristo church, cast their ballots Thursday in the overseas voting for
Filipinos currently underway at the Bayanihan Centre in
The unexpected surge in the daily tally pushed the total turnout to more than 52,000 after 26 days of voting.
The cumulative total has surpassed the 50,000 target set by
Consul General Raly Tejada, who had initially worried about the possible impact
of the strict anti-Covid restrictions in
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It has also gone beyond the 46,396 turnout recorded in the last presidential election in 2016, which amounted to 49% of the total voter registration figure of 93,978.
It came one day after the INC’s hierarchy in
Before this, INC members who are known to observe bloc voting, were seen to come in trickles, and voted mostly on Sundays.
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The weekday tally, meanwhile, had continued to drop from a high of more than 2,000 in the first week of voting to about 650 last Tuesday.
Consulate insiders say Consul General Raly Tejada had written to the church leaders earlier, asking them to encourage their members to vote as soon as possible to avoid a possible last-minute deluge of voters in the coming long weekend.
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Sunday, May 8, is likely to be hectic as Mother’s Day and Buddha’s Birthday both fall on this day. The next day, May 9 has been declared as a statutory holiday and also happens to be the final day of voting so a big crowd is also likely to gather at Bayanihan.
Overseas voters get to elect a president, vice-president, 12
senators and one party-list while those in the
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About 67 million people are registered to vote across the
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