Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Overseas voters find 2007 polls as 'boring': commissioner (10:23 a.m.)
MANILA -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the low turnout of voters in the overseas absentee voting (OAV) is primarily because the voters abroad do not find the mid-term elections "as exciting" as the presidential elections.
Comelec Commissioner Florentino Tuason issued the statement to explain the continued poor turnout of overseas voters as of Tuesday, which stood at 2,829.
Hong Kong posted the highest number of Filipino voters there who cast their ballots at 911.
Tuason said he expects the turnout this year to be only 50 percent of the 504,000 overseas voters who enlisted for absentee voting.
He said in the 2004 elections, the turnout of overseas voters was at 65 percent. (MSN) |
