As part of the record cleaning process by the Commission on Election (COMELEC), all registered voters including the Overseas Absentee Voters (OAVs) who have not voted for the last two successive regular elections or failed to validate their records through adding of biometrics have had their registration deactivated, which means they cannot vote during any upcoming elections.

Validation is the process of digitally capturing a voter’s photograph, fingerprints and signature (biometrics) to complete his registration record pursuant to RA 10367. It is a measure to avoid or lessen the cheating practices during the election such as redundant voter registration in different precincts or commonly known as flying voting.

Eight hundred fifty one (851) registered voters have their records deactivated by the Resident Election Registration Board (RERB) of the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok per RERB order No. 001 dated September 22, 2015.

According to the memo, the affected voters may have until September 30, 2015 to contest the deactivation, or merely 7 days after the giving of the notice through the consular website.

It is not clear however, if those affected voters can register anew since the deadline of voting registration is until October 31, 2015.

The deactivation of inactive or incomplete registered voter records is also implemented to other Philippine consular offices abroad.

One can visit the official COMELEC website for the details and grounds of record deactivation.

Below is the list of the deactivated registered OAV in Thailand. (Do Ctrl+F to quickly search a name).