Currently, 143,659 overseas voters have registered for the May 2010 elections. Thus breaching the number of 142,667 voters for the 2007 national elections. This is according to Nestor Padalhin, vice-chairman of the Overseas Absentee Voters Secretariat (OAVS) based at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
For that first-time ever registration, foreign posts were on their toes as they have to respond to both face-to-face and online queries by first-time prospective absentee voters and master the mechanics of registering Filipinos abroad. Both registrars and registrants were experiencing overseas registration and actual voting for the first time.
With only five weeks to go before the August 31 deadline, the OAVS hopes that registration reaches at least 200,000. (PIA)
