Only 3 COCs left to canvass

The canvassing of votes for president and vice president was sped up Thursday after it was disclosed that Filipinos in 40 countries did not participate in the overseas absentee voting (OAV).

As of posting time, only three more certificates of canvass (COCs) — from Davao City, Bacolod City and Mountain Province — are left to be canvassed, according to Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri.

Zubiri said the estimated number of votes cast in these areas is less than a million: Davao 582,236; Bacolod 205,208; and Mt. Province 74,791.

Zubiri added that no COCs need to be counted from 40 countries as the Department of Foreign Affairs reported last May 31 that no votes were cast in the following OAV locations:

1. Vanuatu
2. Mongolia
3. Kiribati
4. Sudan
5. Iraq
6. Cameroon
7. Central African Republic
8. Cote D’Ivorire
9. Equatorial Guinea
10. Gabon
11. Guinea
12. Guinea-Bissau
13. Sierra Leone
14. Liberia
15. Sao Tome and Principe
16. Senegal
17. Uganda
18. Congo
19. Djibouti
20. Erithrea
21. Ethiopia
22. Mali
23. Chad
24. Malta (PE Tripoli)
25. Mauritani
26. Morocco (PE Tripoli)
27. Tunisia
28. Ecuador
29. American Samoa
30. Slovakia
31. Luxembourg
32. Poland
33. Malta (PE Holy See)
34. Albania
35. Bulgaria
36. Azerbaijan
37. Kazakhstan
38. Turkmenistan
39. Ukraine
40. Morocco (PE Madrid)