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Local absentee voting for May 2025 polls begins
Manila Bulletin
|April 29, 2025
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, April 28, officially started the local absentee voting (LAV) for the 2025 midterm elections, allowing more than 57,000 government personnel and other authorized voters to cast their votes ahead of the May 12 polls.
Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said, that under the law, only government officials and employees, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), Comelec staff, and other designated personnel on election duty are permitted to vote early.
LAV voters will only vote for national positions.
This story is from the April 29, 2025 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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