Baguio City: About 584 of the 2,207 voters who registered for the local absentee voting (LAV) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) have already cast their votes as of Tuesday. Lawyer John Paul Martin, Baguio City election officer, in a report shared to the media, said 436 personnel and cadets out of the 475 from the Philippine Military Academy, cast their votes on Monday while 32 of the 34 Philippine Air Force personnel assigned at the Tactical Operations Group (TOG) based at the Loakan Airport in this city and two media practitioners also availed of the privilege.

According to Philippines News Agency, John Paul Martin noted that 116 personnel of the Baguio City Police Office registered for the LAV and were accommodated Tuesday at the multi-purpose hall of the city police headquarters. Some registrants might not be able to make it during the three-day schedule due to engagements like the ongoing 'Balikatan exercises' or foreign training commitments.

Comelec-CAR regional director, lawyer Julius Torres, stated that LAV is scheduled from April 28-30. Voters participating in the LAV can only vote for national positions and party-list representatives and are not eligible to vote for local positions. The completed ballots are placed in sealed envelopes to be submitted to the committee on local absentee voting. They will be fed to automated counting machines on election day, with details transmitted to the server for inclusion in the general count of voters and votes cast.

Entitled to avail of the LAV are government officials, employees, and media members with active voter registration who will be posted elsewhere for election duties on election day.