Aklan cops cast local absentee votes
BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
(Akeanon) 24 eamang nga pulis sa Aklan, nagpasakop sa local absentee voting
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KALIBO, Aklan - Only 24 policemen of the 600-strong Aklan Police Provincial Office (APPO) personnel availed of the three-day local absentee voting, which started on April 28.
Aklan police provincial director Senior Superintendent Epifanio Bragais, Jr. said the absentee voters exercised their right of suffrage ahead of their colleagues across the province at Camp Pastor Martelino in Barangay New Buswang here.
So far, 13 policemen participated in the voting of candidates for president, vice president, senators and party-list groups. More policemen are expected to cast their votes before the end of the absentee voting on Friday.
The qualified personnel for absentee voting have to manually write the names of candidates in the ballots as supervised by a special board of election inspectors. The ballots placed in sealed envelopes will be counted on May 10 at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) central office, according to Resolution No. 8754 of the poll body.
Local absentee voting allows government officials and employees, including members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), who are duly registered voters, to vote in places where they are not registered voters but where they are temporarily assigned to perform election duties on election day.
As this developed, Comelec Aklan office is also preparing for the testing and sealing of Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) machines on May 7 in each clustered polling precinct in the province.
Cops from APPO are tasked to secure the PCOS of Smartmatic-Total Information Management from May 7 until the election day on May 10 in 327 barangays. The machines will be stored first in Roxas City hub before they are delivered to polling centers in Aklan next week.