{"id":211927,"date":"2019-04-29T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=211927"},"modified":"2025-01-18T18:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T23:31:35","slug":"local-absentee-votes-to-be-counted-on-election-day-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/29\/local-absentee-votes-to-be-counted-on-election-day-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"Local absentee votes to be counted on Election Day: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211929\" style=\"width: 2185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211929\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2185\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg 2185w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-20x16.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2185px) 100vw, 2185px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: ALL SET. The Commission on Elections is all set for the May 13 elections, its spokesperson, Director James Jimenez (left), says during the Broadcasters\u2019 Forum held at Roland\u2019s Farm to Table Restaurant along Visayas Ave.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/amoxil.html\">https:\/\/watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/amoxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>, Quezon City on Wednesday (April 24, 2019). Jimenez also explained the issue of disenfranchised overseas absentee voters in the Middle East. With him is National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) president, Rolly \u201cLakay\u201d Gonzalo. (PNA photo by Ben Briones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Votes cast in the three-day Local Absentee Voting (LAV) will not be immediately counted, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results of LAV will be made known on election day just the like rest of the country,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Jimenez warned voters not to believe news or information claiming the victory of a certain candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain,\u00a0<em>paalala sa publiko<\/em>\u00a0(a reminder to the public),\u00a0<em>maglilipana na naman \u2018yung mga balita na manalo sa ganitong kampo or nanalo sa ganitong opisina. Huwag tayong maniniwala<\/em>\u00a0(news about somebody from this camp already won will circulate. Let&#8217;s not believe it), because that information of course will be false,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec data showed only 29,321 out of 35,604 applications for LAV have been approved.<\/p>\n<p>AFP personnel represent bulk of the voters with 20,064, while PNP employees are 7,576 and 460 members of the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the rest of LAV,\u00a0<em>medyo mataas naman<\/em>\u00a0(there is a quite high) voter turnout at around 60 to 70 percent. This is expected<em>\u00a0kasi nga nag-<\/em>effort\u00a0<em>sila na mapasali sa<\/em>\u00a0(because they made an effort to be included in the) LAV,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from police officers, soldiers, media workers, government employees who will be on duty during election day are eligible for the LAV.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day voting period started on Monday and will be until Wednesday in the camp or office where the voters file their applications for LAV.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy topamax online <a href=\"https:\/\/watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/topamax.html\">https:\/\/watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/topamax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Voting will be during office hours, 8 a.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lexapro online <a href=\"https:\/\/watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lexapro.html\">https:\/\/watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lexapro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>They will be selecting candidates for national positions only, which includes 12 senators and one party-list group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Votes cast in the three-day Local Absentee Voting (LAV) will not be immediately counted, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":211929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285528,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211927\/revisions\/285528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}