April 16 - 30, 2016
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
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OVERSEAS VOTING 2016
Vancouver, B.C. - The Philippine
Consulate General in Vancouver
encourages all registered Filipino
overseas voters to exercise their right
to vote in connection with the 2016
National Elections in the Philippines.
Overseas voters can vote for one (1)
President, one (1) Vice President,
twelve (12) Senators and one (1)
party-list organization representative.
The Certified List of Overseas
Voters within the jurisdiction of
the Philippine Consulate General
in Vancouver is available at
the Consulate’s website: www.
vancouverpcg.org.
Please note that the Consulate
General has already mailed all
ballots to overseas voters within its
jurisdiction, except for those who
have notified the Consulate that they
will vote in person in Vancouver.
Personal Voting
The Philippine Consulate General
is open for personal voting every day
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. until May
8, 2016. It will remain open from 5:00
p.m. on May 8, 2016 until 2:00 a.m.
on May 9, 2016 (5:00 p.m., Philippine
time).
For assistance, particularly for
those who will come to the Consulate
on weekends, please call 604-6535858 if necessary.
Postal Voting
Overseas voters who have
already received their ballots by mail
are reminded to follow carefully the
instructions provided in accomplishing
and returning their ballots to the
Consulate.
The
Philippine
Consulate
General requests postal voters to
mail their accomplished ballots as
soon as possible to ensure that the
ballots reach the Consulate not later
than May 6, 2016 (Friday). Note that
postal companies do not deliver mail
on weekends.
Postal Voters opting to personally
cast their ballots
Overseas voters who received
their ballots by mail but prefer to
personally cast their ballots at the
Consulate may do so during the batchfeeding of mailed ballots scheduled
every Monday and Thursday, from
9:00 a.m.
As a rule, the feeding of mailed
ballots into the vote-counting
machines (VCMs) is performed by the
Special Board of Election Inspectors
(SBEI), in sequence and by precinct.
Note that there are 33 precincts
in Vancouver. Voters who wish to
personally feed their mailed ballots
may only do so when their respective
precincts are called.
Please note that the process
could take time due to the big number
of ballots received daily for each of the
precincts. Voters are therefore given
the option to just turn in their ballots
to authorized election personnel of
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