WHEREAS,
Presidential Decree No. 229 dated June 30, 1973 has provided for secret
voting on Referendum Day July 27, 1973 so that the collective views of
the members of the Barangay may be ascertained with accuracy and their
decisions on national and local issues be given effect;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Barangay members who are registered under the permanent system
of registration pursuant to the Election Code of 1971 and also those
registered under the validated list used in the January 1973 Referendum
need not register under Presidential Decree No. 210; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is possible that these barangay members mentioned in
the preceding paragraph may have difficulty in locating their Barangay
Center or may not be able to locate their Barangay Centers on
Referendum Day and thus would have difficulty in voting or would not be
able to vote;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is also possible that Barangay members registered
under Presidential Decree No. 210 may not also be able to easily locate
their Barangay Centers;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Section 17, Paragraph j, of Presidential Decree No. 229
penalizes any person who, being a registered voter of the Barrio or
Barangay, fails to cast his vote without justifiable excuse with
imprisonment of not less than one month or more than six months;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in order to achieve the desired goal of affording as much as
possible the greatest number of the members of the Barangay opportunity
to express their views thru the secret ballots, they should, with some
measure of facility and certainty, be able to cast their vote on
Referendum Day;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant
to Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972, and General Order
No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, do hereby order and decree to be part
of the laws of the land the following:cralaw:red
Section 1. Any barangay member who, on Referendum
Day, inspite of diligent efforts and through no fault of his own could
not locate his Barangay Center shall be allowed to vote in the Barangay
Center nearest his residence.
Section 2. Any registered barangay member of a city/
municipality/municipal district, who on Referendum Day is staying for
any reason in another city/municipality/municipal district outside the
province where he is registered, may cast his vote in the Barangay
Center nearest the place where he is temporarily staying.
Section 3. Any barangay referendum committee which
on account of the additional transient voters mentioned above,
runs short of ballots at any time of Referendum Day shall be
authorized to borrow from the nearest Barangay Referendum
Committee under proper receipt sufficient number of ballots for their
Barangay Center.
Section 4. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 27th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-three.
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