The Department of Foreign Affairs – Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS), announced on Wednesday afternoon that the 2016-2018 overseas voter (OV) registration that commenced on December 1 last year and will end on September 30 next year, has set a new record for first quarter performance, garnering a total of 67,497 new OV registrants for the 2019 elections. It surpassed the number in the first three months of 2014-2015 OV registration that had a total of 64,074 new OV registrants and the previous record of 64,917 that was set in 2009. The overseas voter registration in preparation for the 2016 elections netted a cumulative total of 1.376 million active registered overseas voters. The attainable target for this registration period is 1.1 million OV registrants, which would net a cumulative total of 2.13 million active registered voters for the coming national elections. Our media partners and other OV stakeholders are also playing a vital role in disseminating overseas voting awareness among our kababayans [countrymen]abroad,” said Undersecretary Ariel Abadilla, who is concurrently chairman of DFA-OVS.

Source: Manila Times March 18, 2017 13:41 UTC