LIST: Modes of overseas voting in the 2025 elections
MANILA, Philippines – With the Commission on Elections (Comelec) ramping up information campaigns on internet voting, overseas Filipino voters will be checking whether they will be part of the first online voters in Philippine history.
Though it is the first time the Comelec is implementing it, voting via the internet will be the major mode of casting ballots for overseas Filipinos in the 2025 elections, with 76 Philippine posts conducting it. The traditional modes of personal voting, where voters show up at Philippine posts to cast their ballots, and postal voting, where voters mail in their ballots, will still remain for 17 posts.
Registered overseas voters will have a 30-day voting period from April 13 to May 12.
Votes will be counted either through the automated election system (AES), where Comelec-designated officials feed ballots into vote-counting machines, or tallied through the online system. The manual mode of counting, which was just used last election, is officially obsolete.
See the tables below to see the mode of voting per Philippine post abroad:
Asia-Pacific
In the Asia-Pacific region, 3 countries and areas will be casting their votes personally, 8 will be mailing their votes in, and 43 will be voting online.
Eight of the posts will be counting votes via AES, while 25 of posts will be manually counting.
Europe
Only voters registered in Turkiye will be personally voting. Seven countries and areas will mail in their ballots — Northern Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. The remaining 66 will be voting online.
Meanwhile, three posts will be using AES to count votes, while the remaining 22 will count votes online.
Middle East and Africa
In vote-rich Middle East and Africa, 10 countries and areas will be personally voting, 14 will be mailing in ballots, and the remaining 42 will be voting online.
Six posts will be counting votes via AES, and the remaining 13 will count via the online system.
North and Latin America
This 2025 election, the entire Philippine electorate registered in North and Latin America-based posts will cast and have their votes counted online. – Rappler.com