Not all reinstated overseas voters will get ballots

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to reinstate the hundreds of thousands of overseas Filipinos whose registration as voters it earlier deactivated. Not all of them, however, will be allocated ballots when voting period runs from April 13 to May 13. In Comelec Resolution 9653 — the same resolution that restored 238,557 overseas absentee voters to the voters’ list — it was resolved that only 20% of these voters will be allocated ballots The resolution was promulgated on March 5, but copies were made available only on March 7.

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