Low voter turnout in overseas voting

ALMOST halfway into the ongoing one-month overseas voting, turnout remains low with only a fraction of the more than one million registered overseas Filipino voters able to cast their votes so far, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

Commissioner Arthur Lim, chairman, Office for Overseas Voting (OFOV), disclosed on Tuesday that as of April 19, only 95,947 overseas voters out of 1,386,067 registered voters had cast their votes.