Local absentee voting for Eleksyon 2022 starts April 27, 2022

Absentee voting for those who will be on duty on Election Day, May 9, 2022, is set to start on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), 84,357 voters have been allowed to avail of local absentee voting (LAV), which will last until April 29, 2022.

Meanwhile, the applications of 9,341 individuals were disapproved because they are either not registered or have been deactivated.

The Comelec said a total of 93,698 military, police, government and media personnel applied for LAV for the 2022 elections.

Local absentee voters will vote manually for national positions: president, vice president, senators and party-list.

According to Comelec Commissioner George Garcia, voting among military, police and government personnel will be conducted by the head of their respective offices.

"He will be the one to distribute to the local absentee voters their ballots, then the voters will accomplish the ballots," Garcia said, as tweeted by GMA News' Tina Panganiban-Perez.

After accomplishing the ballot, the voter will then give the ballot back to the office head. The office head is tasked to collect all envelopes containing the accomplished ballots and transmit it to the Comelec Election Contests Adjudication Department (ECAD).

Media personnel availing of the LAV, meanwhile, will vote at the Regional Election Director - National Capital Region (RED-NCR), Garcia said.

LAV votes will be counted along with votes cast on May 9.

"The counting and canvassing of votes on May 9 at 7 p.m. will be done by the CLAV (Committee on Local Absentee Voting) at the 3rd & 4th floors of the Bureau of Treasury sa Palacio del Gobernador," Garcia said.

"All candidates will be notified so they can send their watchers to observe."

Comelec Chairperson Saidamen Pangarungan and Commissioner Aimee Neri are among those who will avail of LAV. They will vote at the Comelec main office in Intramuros, Manila. —KBK, GMA News