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PHILIPPINE EMBASSY IN SEOUL REGISTERS 7,380 OVERSEAS VOTERS FOR 2016 NATIONAL ELECTIONS


Collage of photos from several mobile Overseas Voter Registration in different place in South Korea / Ms. Cheryl M. Navarro, Philippine Embassy’s alternate Voter Registration Machine operator with overseas voter registrants in South Korea.

The Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Seoul has successfully registered 7,380 new overseas voters for the 2016 National Elections, surpassing its target number set during the onsite “Training for the Resumption of Continuing Registration of Overseas Voters held in Macau, China in April 2014.

The Embassy garnered the highest number of new registrants in October 2015, the last month of registration period, with a total of 1,161. For 18 months, beginning May 2014, overseas voter registration was conducted at the Embassy in Seoul as well as in different locations in South Korea, including the cities of Mokpo, Incheon, Daegu, Jeju, Busan, Gimhae, Geoje, Hwaseong, and Ansan, among others. Whenever possible and practical, the Embassy also granted requests for mobile overseas registration from several religious groups in South Korea. Overseas voter registration services also included reactivation, correction of entries and transfer of records. To encourage overseas Filipinos to register, the Embassy used its official Facebook account and website for posting announcements and notices. Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Raul S. Hernandez together with Resident Election Registration Board (RERB) Chaiman Consul General and First Secretary Roderico C. Atienza and RERB Members Mr. Alfredo Y.Socorro and Labor Attache Atty. Felicitas Q. Bay, promoted overseas voter registration at many Filipino community events in South Korea. “I ask for your commitment to register and exercise your right to choose the right leaders for our country at next year’s national elections – those leaders who will continue to lead us towards the “daang matuwid,” Ambassador Hernandez said in his remarks during the “Bayanihan sa Korea 2015” held in Ansan City on 11 October 2015. – END–

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