QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 1357)
To amend Section 185 of the Omnibus Election Code by requiring the COMELEC to furnish every registered voter, at least 30 days before an election, with an official sample ballot, a voter information sheet, and a list of candidates, through specified delivery methods.
It amends Section 185 (Official Sample Ballots) of the Omnibus Election Code, as amended.
Thirty (30) ballots per polling place.
They must be printed on colored paper, like the official ballots, but bearing the words 'Official Sample Ballot' for public demonstration; no actual candidate names may appear on the voting spaces.
Official sample ballots cannot be used for voting; no name of any actual candidate may be written on the voting spaces on the sample ballots provided by the COMELEC.
At least thirty (30) days before an election.
Through registered mail with return card, personal service with a corresponding receipt signed by the voter or someone who knows the voter, or any other practicable means.
An unfilled official sample ballot, a voter information sheet, and a list of all registered national, provincial, and city candidates to be voted in the election.
The voter’s name, address, precinct and place where he is registered, simplified instructions on casting votes, prominent indication of the voters’ polling place number and location.
Generally in alphabetical order under their respective party affiliation.
The alphabetical order must be 'democratized' by placing names into three (3) columns with specified letter ranges, to avoid concentrating names in one position.
First column: A–Z; Second column: I–Z then A–H; Third column: Q–Z then A–P.
Not to exceed three (3) words.
Yes. Persons nominated under the party-list system must be included in the list.
In the language or dialect understood by a majority of the voters in the region.
Upon its approval (as provided in Section 3 of the Act).