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SFA-AGR-231-07
13
April 2007
Philippine
Embassy,
Ottawa
reports “
Al
l systems go” for Overseas Absentee Voting in
Canada
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Ambassador Jose S.
Brillantes (1st L) and some of the Embassy's deputized
Comelec representatives (from left, Mr. Romy Merjudio, Second Secretary
and Consul Rhen Rodriguez, Minister and Consul General Joey Angeles, Ms.
Bing Clemente, Second Secretary and Consul Louie Bello and Mr. Al
Rosales) are all set for the 2007 overseas absentee voting in Ottawa.
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13 April 2007 — Philippine Ambassador to
Canada
Jose S. Brillantes reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the
Philippine Embassy is all set for the 2007 overseas absentee voting, which
commences on 14 April 2007 and ends at 3:00 p.m. (Philippine time) on 14 May
2007.
Registered overseas absentee voters will
elect 12 senators and a party-list organization.
As the Embassy and the Philippine
Consulates General in
Toronto
and
Vancouver
are among Foreign Service Posts which will conduct voting by mail, Ambassador
Brillantes has been urging registered absentee voters in
Canada
to mail their ballots early to the Embassy or the Consulates where they are
registered. The Embassy will also accept seafarers who are registered as voters
during the voting period. Thesaid seafarers should personally appear before the
Post.
Personnel of the Embassy as well as the
Consulates in
Toronto
and
Vancouver
who were deputized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to serve as
election officers have been faithfully fulfilling their duties to ensure the
peaceful and orderly conduct of overseas absentee voting in their respective
precincts.
The Certified List of Official Candidates
and Party-List Organizations may be viewed at the Comelec website,
www.comelec.gov.ph. END
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