A invoice permitting senior residents, handicapped, sick in addition to domestically stranded people to forged their vote by way of mail throughout public well being emergency or state of calamity has been filed within the House of Representatives.
Senior Deputy Majority Leader Sandro Marcos of Ilocos Norte made the proposal underneath House Bill 8037 which duties the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to undertake and implement a postal or mail-in voting system in occasions of public well being emergencies or states of calamity for the good thing about senior residents, the handicapped the sick and domestically stranded people “who are duly registered voters and who, on election day, may not be able to vote due to high risk of infection or physical impossibility.”
Marcos’ invoice defines postal or mail-voting as a type of absentee voting through which a poll is mailed to the house of a registered voter.
The recipient registered voter will then fill out the poll and return it both by postal mail or drop it off in-person or by a consultant right into a safe drop field or at a voting middle.
In the case of a postal mail, the invoice supplies that the state will allocate the required funds for the fee of postage.
The invoice applies to native, nationwide and abroad balloting in addition to to all nationwide elections and plebiscites.
Further, Marcos’ proposal mandates the Comelec to promulgate the implementing guidelines and rules for the efficient implementation of the invoice inside 90 days after the invoice is signed into legislation.
The finances for the invoice’s implementation is lodged underneath the funding for the Commission on Elections.—LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
