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MANILA - The Philippine Consulate General in New York would send out the ballots for overseas absentee voting as soon as possible, Consul General Elmer Cato said Sunday. In a statement, Cato announced that the boxes containing the equipment and election paraphernalia had just arrived at the FedEx Facility in New Jersey while other packages have departed Alaska. Unless there are unforeseen factors, the envoy said other packages would be delivered to the Consulate by Monday. "We cannot send out unless we receive the ballots. We will send them out as soon as we receive them," Cato said. Meanwhile, he defended the Consulate anew after some members of the Filipino community said the shipping delay of election materials and "general lack of timely information on the voting process" are shaping up as form of voter disenfranchisement. At least 64 Filipinos, in an open letter posted at Action Network, demanded the immediate dissemination of electronic and printed voting mate ....

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