A. Voting Places/Periods:      Voting abroad was held in eighty one (81) Philippine embassies and consulates, three (3) MECO offices in Taiwan, three (3) satellite voting centers and eighteen (18) field voting precincts.      Satellite voting centers refer to the voting centers which are the extension of the Philippine embassies/consulates and authorized by the Commission to conduct voting for a limited number of days during the voting period. Those allowed to conduct field voting are the following Posts: List of Approved Field Voting Centers Field Voting Centers Post Colombo, Sri Lanka PE Dhaka Marseilles, Nice, Monaco PE Paris Port of Baltimore, USA PE Washington Surabaya PE Brunei Dili, East Timor PE Jakarta Stuttgart, Germany PE Berlin Barcelona, Spain PE Madrid Lagos, Port Hartcourt and Delta, Nigeria PE Abuja Hilla, Iraq PE Iraq Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam PE Hanoi Balikpapan, East Kalimantan PCG Manado Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands PE The Hague      For Posts with registered seafarers, voting was a sixty (60) day period commencing on 12 March 2004 while Posts which had land-based voters commenced voting on 11 April 2004. The last day of voting was on 10 May 2004 at 3 p.m. , Philippine time as mandated under OAV Law.      Of the total number of registered voters of three hundred fifty nine thousand two hundred ninety seven (359,297), the land based voters comprised three hundred fifty six thousand nine hundred ninety five (356,995) while the sea-based comprised two thousand three hundred two (2,302). B. Manner of Voting:      The OAV Law provides for two (2) manners by which the overseas absentee voter may vote. One is PERSONAL VOTING where the registered voter has to present himself before the SBEI for voting at the Post where he is a registered voter in order to cast his vote. The other is VOTING BY MAIL where the registered voter will receive an envelope containing the ballot which he has to accomplish and send the same through the mail addressed to the Post where he is a registered voter.      Voting by mail, which is readily the exception to the general rule of personal voting, was adopted in Japan, Canada and United Kingdom (including Ireland) owing to the efficiency of the mailing system in these countries.      Of the total number of overseas registrants, only four per cent (4%) was covered by voting by mail, to wit:   Total Number of Voters for Voting by Mail Seq. COUNTRY POST Total Number of Seafarers Total Number of Land Based Voters No. of Voters in the Post 1 JAPAN PCG OSAKA 36 3,165 3,201 JAPAN PE TOKYO 41 6,124 6,165 2 UNITED KINGDOM PE LONDON 8 2,875 2,883 IRELAND PE LONDON   212 212 3 CANADA PCG VANCOUVER   424 424 CANADA PE OTTAWA   51 51 CANADA PCG TORONTO 2 732 734 TOTAL 87 13,583 13,670      On the other hand, personal voting was conducted in seventy (70) countries covering two hundred forty five thousand six hundred twenty seven (245,627) overseas absentee voters.   Total Number of Voters for Personal Voting Seq. COUNTRY POST Total Number of Seafarers Total Number of Land Based Voters No. of Voters in the Post 1 AUSTRALIA PCG SYDNEY 4 129 133 AUSTRALIA PE CANBERRA 5 148 153 2 BANGLADESH PE DHAKA 10 165 175 3 SRI LANKA PE DHAKA - 202 202 4 BRUNEI PE BANDAR SERI 10 9,589 9,599 5 CAMBODIA PE PNOM PEHN 1 387 388 6 CHINA PCG GUANGZHOU - 162 162 CHINA PCG SHANGHAI 1 202 203 CHINA PCG XIAMEN - 99 99 CHINA PE BEIJING - 248 248 7 HONGKONG PE HONGKONG 495 87,868 88,363 MACAU LABOR OFFICE 8 1,532 1,540 8 INDIA PE NEW DELHI   42 42 9 INDONESIA PCG MANADO 11 85 96 INDONESIA PE JAKARTA 1 606 607 10 LAOS PE VIENTIANE   109 109 11 MALAYSIA PE KUALA LUMPUR 9 2,594 2,603 12 MYANMAR PE YANGON 3 96 99 13 NEW ZEALAND PE WELLINGTON   57 57 14 PAKISTAN PE ISLAMABAD   73 73 15 AFGHANISTAN PE ISLAMABAD   1 1 16 PALAU PE KOROR 3 2,580 2,583 17 PAPUA NEW GUINEA PE PORT MORESBY 8 859 867 18 SINGAPORE PE SINGAPORE 37 23,918 23,955 19 SOUTH KOREA PE SEOUL 6 871 877 20 TAIWAN MECO-KAOHSIUNG 41 3,289 3,330 TAIWAN MECO-TAICHUNG 1 1,596 1,597 TAIWAN MECO-TAIPEI 24 6,658 6,682 21 THAILAND PE BANGKOK 12 983 995 22 VIETNAM PE HANOI   341 341 23 BAHRAIN PE MANAMA 38 4,256 4,294 24 EGYPT PE CAIRO   686 686 25 IRAN PE TEHRAN   267 267 26 IRAQ PE BAGHDAD   100 100 27 ISRAEL PE TEL-AVIV 3 1,967 1,970 28 JORDAN PE AMMAN 1 1,073 1,074 29 KENYA PE NAIROBI   91 91 30 UGANDA PE NAIROBI   1 1 31 LEBANON PE BEIRUT 3 2,397 2,400 32 LIBYA PE TRIPOLI 6 1,521 1,527 33 MALI PE TRIPOLI   1 1 34 NIGERIA PE ABUJA   705 705 35 SENEGAL PE ABUJA   1 1 36 OMAN PE MUSCAT 1 2,765 2,766 37 SOUTH AFRICA PE PRETORIA 3 38 41 38 BOTSWANA PE PRETORIA   46 46 39 MOZAMBIQUE PE PRETORIA   37 37 40 KUWAIT PE KUWAIT 27 14,250 14,277 41 QATAR PE DOHA 5 6,209 6,214 42 SAUDI ARABIA PE JEDDAH 45 32,953 32,998 SAUDI ARABIA PE RIYADH 48 45,750 45,798 SAUDI ARABIA AL KHOBAR   18,218 18,218 43 YEMEN PE RIYADH   1 1 44 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES PE ABU DHABI 80 15,403 15,483 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES DUBAI   5,393 5,393 45 ARGENTINA PE BUENOS AIRES   28 28 46 PARAGUAY PE BUENOS AIRES   1 1 47 BRAZIL PE BRASILIA 5 36 41 48 CHILE PE SANTIAGO 43 14 57 49 CUBA PE HAVANA   14 14 50 MEXICO PE MEXICO   39 39 51 USA PE WASHINGTON 95 449 544 USA PCG SAN FRANCISCO 6 849 855 USA PCG HONOLULU 1 117 118 USA PCG LOS ANGELES 14 287 301 USA PCG CHICAGO 5 691 696 USA PG NEW YORK 9 810 819 GUAM PE AGANA   204 204 52 VENEZUELA PE CARACAS 2 25 27 53 CNMI PCG SAIPAN 30 6,973 7,003 54 AUSTRIA PE VIENNA   195 195 55 BELGIUM PE BRUSSELS 16 1,010 1,026 56 CZECH REPUBLIC PE PRAGUE   29 29 57 FRANCE PE PARIS 19 1,350 1,369 58 PORTUGAL PE PARIS 1 1 1 59 GERMANY PE BERLIN 5 153 158 GERMANY BONN EXTN. OFFICE 1 210 211 GERMANY PCG HAMBURG 14 56 70 60 HUNGARY PE BUDAPEST 30 30 61 NETHERLAND PE THE HAGUE 245 296 541 62 ROMANIA PE BUCHAREST 1 35 36 63 RUSSIA PE MOSCOW 28 28 64 SPAIN PE MADRID 5 1,246 1,251 65 SWEDEN PE STOCKHOLM 140 83 223 66 NORWAY PE STOCKHOLM 2 1 3 67 SWITZERLAND PE BERNE   129 129 SWITZERLAND PHIL. MISSION TO GENEVA 1 686 687 68 TURKEY PE ANKARA 2 133 135 69 VATICAN PE VATICAN 4 669 673 ITALY PE ROME 21 14,574 14,595 ITALY PCG MILAN 6 7,226 7,232 70 GREECE PE ATHENS 566 5,124 5,690 TOTAL 2,215 343,412 345,627 C. Suspension of Voting.      Although voting was for a continuous period at the Posts except on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the Commission allowed suspension of voting where it was established that the said day is a national holiday observed in the Posts. The suspension of voting is based on the policy of the Commission to defer to existing laws and traditions of the host countries. Below is the list of national holidays in different countries where suspension of voting was allowed.   Suspension of Voting Seq. Post Date Name of Holidays Status 1 ALL POSTS 8-Apr Maundy Thursday MANDATED 9-Apr Good Friday MANDATED 2 PE BANGKOK 6-Apr King Rama I Memorial and Chakri Day GRANTED 13-15 April Songram Days GRANTED 5-May Coronation Day GRANTED 7-May Royal Plowing Day GRANTED 3 PCG MANADO 22-Mar Hindi New Year GRANTED 3-May Birthday of Muhammad GRANTED 4 PE YANGON 12-16 April Water Festival GRANTED 5 PE TEL-AVIV 6-Apr First day of Pessach GRANTED 13-Apr End of Pessach GRANTED 26-Apr National Day of Israel GRANTED 6 PE CANBERRA 15-Mar Canberra Day GRANTED 10-Apr Black Saturday GRANTED 11-Apr Easter Sunday GRANTED 12-Apr Easter Monday (Australian National Holiday) GRANTED 6-Apr ANZAC Day GRANTED 1-May Philippine Labor Day GRANTED 7 PE BUDAPEST 12-Apr National Holiday of Hungary GRANTED 8 PCG HAMBURG 8-12 April Traditional Northern Germany Holidays GRANTED 9 PE SAIPAN 24-Mar Covenant Day GRANTED 10 PE ATHENS 25-Mar Greek National Day GRANTED 12-Apr Easter Monday (Greek National Holiday) GRANTED 11 PE BANDAR 3-May Birthday of Muhammad GRANTED 12 PE PHNOM PEHN 13-15 April New Year (National Holidays) GRANTED 3-May Visaka Bochea Day GRANTED 7-May Royal Ploughing Day GRANTED 13 PE BERLIN 12-Apr Easter Monday GRANTED 1-May Labor Day GRANTED 14 PE PARIS 12-Apr Easter Monday GRANTED 15 PHIL. M GENEVA 12-Apr Easter Monday GRANTED 16 PE ANKARA 23-Apr National Sovereignty and Children's Day GRANTED 17 PE PRAGUE 12-Apr Easter Monday GRANTED 1-May Labor Day GRANTED 8-May Victory Day/Liberation Day GRANTED 18 PE VIENTIANE 12-16 April Lao Lunar Year GRANTED 19 PE CARACAS 19-Apr Declaration of Independence GRANTED 1-May Labor Day GRANTED 20 PE PRETORIA 12-Apr Family Day GRANTED 14-Apr South African Election Day GRANTED 27-Apr Freedom Day GRANTED 21 PE WELLINGTON 12-Apr Easter Monday GRANTED 25-Apr ANZAC Day GRANTED 22 PE SWEDEN 12-Apr Easter Monday GRANTED 23 PE ABU DHABI 1-May Birthday of Muhammad GRANTED 24 BONN EXT. OFFC 12-Apr Easter Monday GRANTED 1-May Labor Day GRANTED 25 PE KOROR 5-May Senior Citizen's Day GRANTED 26 PE KUWAIT 1-May Voting Holiday GRANTED 27 PE SEOUL 5-May Children's Day GRANTED 28 PE MOSCOW 1-4 May Labor and Youth Days GRANTED 29 PE TRIPOLI 2-May Birthday of Muhammad GRANTED 30 PE NEW DELHI 2-May Birthday of Muhammad GRANTED 4-May Buddha Purnima GRANTED

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