At Home sa Abroad: How will overseas Filipinos vote in 2025?

10 hours ago 2

Upgrade to High-Speed Internet for only ₱1499/month!

Enjoy up to 100 Mbps fiber broadband, perfect for browsing, streaming, and gaming.

Visit Suniway.ph to learn

Already have Rappler+?
to listen to groundbreaking journalism.

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.

How will overseas Filipinos vote in 2025?

Rappler speaks to the Comelec Office for Overseas Voting about the new mode of internet voting for overseas Filipinos, and what to expect for the 1.3 million registered voters abroad

MANILA, Philippines – In 2025, overseas Filipinos will be able to vote via the internet for the first time.

Internet voting will not just be one of the modes of voting, but the mode assigned to the majority of areas in the world, including those with large Filipino populations. But many migrant Filipinos might ask — is it safe? Will it work? And how about the Filipinos who will still use the traditional personal and postal modes under the new system with Miru?

Pre-enrollment, the first step to participating in the online voting system, opened on Thursday, March 20, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced. This episode was pre-recorded on Wednesday, March 19.

In this episode of At Home sa Abroad: Stories of Overseas Filipinos, multimedia reporter Michelle Abad sits down with Comelec Office for Overseas Voting acting director Ian Geonanga to talk about internet voting, and what challenges in the old system brought the Comelec to proceed with this new era for overseas Filipinos.