The number of registered Filipino voters overseas for the upcoming polls has increased by more than 100 percent than the figure six years ago. Data obtained by the Philippine News Agency from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) showed that 1,822,115 million overseas Filipinos have been registered for the May 13 elections. Of this number, 794,286 are newly-registered. The figure marks an increase of more than 100 percent compared to the 737,759 registered voters in the 2013 mid-term elections, and at least 32.4 percent more compared to the 1,376,067 registered voters in 2016 when President Rodrigo R. Duterte won.
Courtesy of DFA-Overseas Voting Secretariat
In the 2013 elections, the overseas voter turnout was pegged at 16.11 percent or...