The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) announced the starts of Online Voters’ Registration for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) which can now be accessed worldwide. The DFA through their DFA-Overseas Voting Secretariat said on Thursday that it had opened iRehistro in the Foreign Service Posts in the Asia-Pacific Region.
According to DFA, through the iRehistro program, OFWs can fill out voters’ registration forms in their homes, workplaces, and internet Cafes in their convenience.
The DFA also announced that OFW’s can also set their appointment in the FSPs through iRehistro where they will sign their duly-accomplished forms and have their biometrics captured.
The Foreign Service Posts (FSPs) are located in various areas in the Asia-Pacific Region such as the Philippine embassies in Bangkok, Brunei, Canberra, Dhaka, Dili, Hanoi, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, Phnom Penh, Seoul, Singapore, Vientiane, Wellington, Yangon and the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong, Macau, Osaka and Sydney.
The COMELEC noted that voter registration will end on October 31, 2015. All Filipinos aged at least 18 years old by May 9, not disqualified by law to vote and who expect that they will be abroad during the April 9 to May 10 overseas voting period for the 2016 national elections can visit iRehistro.com or the Comelec website to register as an absentee voter.