The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is hoping to get at least one million Filipinos abroad to participate in the month-long polls for overseas Filipino voters (OFVs).

There are 1,376,067 Filipinos who registered for the absentee voting that started on Saturday. It is the first time that the number of OFVs exceeded the one million mark since the start of overseas voting in 2004.

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