PRESS RELEASE NO. 111-2024

Consul Grace Bulos and Ms. Elaine Justine Aldaya (third and fourth from left) receive their certificates of participation for the training session.  Also in the photo are from (left to right) Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Undersecretary Christina Gracia Rola McKernan, Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commissioners Socorro Inting, Marlon Casquejo and Ernesto Ferdinand Maceda, Jr.

17 September 2024, Honolulu – Consul Grace Bulos and Consular Assistant Elaine Justine Aldaya joined representatives from the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C., United States, the Philippine Embassy in Santiago, Chile and the Philippine Consulates General in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco during the Online Voting and Canvassing System Training organized by the Commission on Elections Office for Overseas Voting and the Department of Foreign Affairs Overseas Voting Secretariat last 13 September at the Kalayaan Hall of the Philippine Center in San Francisco.  

The training briefed the participants on the online voting and canvassing system that will enable registered Filipino overseas voters to participate in the Philippine national midterm elections from 13 April to 12 May 2025.  (END).

Consul Bulos and Ms. Aldaya exchange cordialities with Commissioner Maceda.