Avoid long lines, vote early, Comelec urges.*Ronnie Baldonado file photo
Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson is calling on Negrenses to go out and vote on Election Day on Monday, May 12.
“I encourage you to go out and vote tomorrow. Your votes matter, and your voices deserve to be heard,” Lacson said in a statement on Sunday.
“I pray for peaceful, honest, and orderly elections for us all. God bless us all,” he also said.
Negros Occidental, the province with the 6th largest voting population in the country, has 2,001,732 voters.
There are 785 aspirants running for 369 posts in Negros Occidental and Bacolod City in Monday’s polls.
Early voting exclusively for senior citizens, persons with disability and pregnant voters will be from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., but they can still vote until 7 p.m. of Monday, the Comelec said.
Voting for the rest of the voters will be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday
Express lanes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. will also be up for senior citizens, PWDs, Indigenous peoples, pregnant, and escorted persons deprived of liberty voters.*