'This is the second time I am casting my
absentee vote to Pervez Elahi in general elections to convey a message that he is my leader,' Pervaiz remarked.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has been hospitalized due to illness, cast an
absentee vote Saturday afternoon for Sunday's election to choose his successor as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, party lawmakers said.
"Although the
absentee vote counts on a lot of security, it is loaded with distrust."
Manila The 31-day
absentee vote for overseas Filipinos kicked off without major hitches yesterday, reports reaching Manila from abroad said.
The
absentee vote tally was 33,813 in the same period ahead of the previous election, which prizewinning novelist Yasuo Tanaka won.
Manila The Philippines is in the thick of preparations for the country's
absentee vote with more than half-a-million Filipinos expected to take part in the political exercise that will elect the country's next national leaders.
Ferrer said that during the 2007 mid-term elections, some 18,000 seafarers were able to cast their votes via the internet thanks to the
absentee vote pilot program in Singapore.
"With only 113,209 overseas Filipinos voting, the cost of each
absentee vote is now P1,310 per vote.
The data from the PPCRV transparency server did not indicate the percentage of overseas
absentee votes that have already been counted.
In the 2016 race at issue, Hubbard initially beat Franks by 90 votes after getting a large number of
absentee votes. To determine if those
absentee votes were fraudulent, Frank's attorney, Roland, used a lawsuit filed earlier under the Sunshine Law to convince a St.
Twelve out of 150 lower house seats remain in doubt, with counting of pre-poll, postal and
absentee votes to resume on Tuesday.
There are as of Monday 188
absentee votes and perhaps a handful of affidavit votes to be counted.