Should I Go Home to Vote for the 2010 Presidential Elections
A part of me had hoped that I could vote for the 2010 presidential elections in Singapore. However, Universal Studios Singapore performer and GMA News reporter Marvin Tomandao disabused me any such notions. Straight from the Philippine Embassy officials themselves, he confirmed that I cannot vote in Singapore since it’s too late for me to register. 
Thus, the question is raised, should I go home to vote for the 2010 presidential elections?
In the meantime, the Overseas Absentee Voting has already commenced in Singapore on 10 May 2010. GMA News reports.
Singapore was also a picture of a smooth-sailing [Overseas Absentee Voting] for Filipino workers there. Despite a brief drizzle in the island state, “excited” Filipino voters still went out of their houses to cast their votes, according to former GMA News reporter Marvin Tomandao, reporting from Singapore.
As early as 5:00 a.m., some voters trooped to the Philippine Embassy there, which serves as the voting center. In the first few hours after the embassy opened, around 50 OFWs had already cast their votes.
Tomandao quoted embassy officials as saying they are expecting a higher voter turnout this year compared to the last presidential election in 2004, where 80 percent of the 23,000 registered voters in Singapore were able to vote.
Lydia Deligente, the first Filipino in Singapore to take part in the 2010 automated OAV, was “all smiles” after she cast her votes, saying it was a lot easier than when she did it manually in the 2004 elections.
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