PH Consulate General in Dubai Hosts Automated Election System Training for Middle East Posts 

A total of 80 participants coming from ten Middle Eastern posts of the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs as well as the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and Department of Science and Technology (DOST) convened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the Training of Automated Election System (AES) Electoral Board for Overseas Voting on 21-25 March 2022. (Dubai PCG photo)

DUBAI 04 April 2022 — The Philippine Consulate General in Dubai hosted the Training on Automated Election System (AES) Electoral Board for Overseas Voting for 10 Middle East posts of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on 21-25 March 2022 at the Millennium Airport Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in preparation for the overseas voting from 10 April 2022 to 9 May 2022.

The three-day consisted of lectures on general instructions for Automated Elections System (AES) voting, which highlighted the role and responsibilities of the members of the election board and poll watchers, including the procedures for personal and postal voting, post counting procedures, and vote counting machines (VCM) technical procedures.

The 10 foreign service posts that participated in the training included Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv. Special Board of Election Inspectors (SBEI) and Special Board of Canvassers (SBOC) of said posts participated in the said training.

There are about 1.7 million registered overseas voters all over the world and the Consulate General in Dubai has the most number of registered overseas voters at 191,779. END

COMELEC’s Supervising Commissioner Rey E. Bulay welcomed the participants and highlighted the importance of the training and upcoming elections during his opening remarks. (Dubai PCG photo)

The three-day training consisted of lectures and hands-on sessions for the participants who are part of their respective posts’ Special Board of Election Inspectors (SBEI) and Special Board of Canvassers (SBOC). (Dubai PCG photo)

After the lectures and hands-on training, the SBEI members participants took the certification exam facilitated by the DOST which tested their knowledge of the technical procedures as well as the processes for the Final Sealing and Testing as well as the actual election. A total of 12 participants from Philippine Consulate General in Dubai were among the top 15 participants who gained the highest scores in the certification exam. (Dubai PCG photo)

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