Manila, March 24 -- Some 5,000 Filipinos based abroad have enrolled in the online voting and counting system (OVCS) to be used in the May 12 midterm polls.

This, as the enrolment period for internet voting for overseas voters started on March 20.

"There will be more enrolling in the coming weeks. It's good that the enrollment has been quick and easy," Comelec Chairperson George Erwin Garcia said in an interview before the escrow deposit of May 2025 Election Source Codes at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in Manila on Monday.

The enrolment period for the OVCS will run until May 7.

Garcia, meanwhile, urged voters who are already enrolled to familiarize themselves on how to use the OVCS.

"At least, come the voting period, the inte...