ARTICLE V - SUFFRAGE

Question 1

T or F

All citizens have the right of suffrage.

Answer 1

False, there are citizens disqualified by law.

Question 2

T or F

No literacy, property, or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage.

Answer 2

True.

Question 3

T or F

Citizens who vote must have resided in the Philippines for at least 2 years.

Answer 3

False, he must have resided in the Philippines for at
least one (1) year and in the place wherein he
proposes to vote for at least six (6) months
immediately preceding the election

Question 4

What law provides for the registration to exercise the right to vote?

Answer 4

RA 8189 (Voter’s Registration Act of 1996)

Question 5

The residency requirement for one to exercise the right to vote is?

Answer 5

He must have resided in the Philippines for at
least one (1) year and in the place wherein he
proposes to vote for at least six (6) months
immediately preceding the election.

Question 6

What are the qualifications to exercise the right to vote?

Answer 6

1. First he must be a Filipino citizen;
2. Second, he must not be disqualified by law; and
3. Third, he must have resided in the Philippines for at
   least one (1) year and in the place wherein he
   proposes to vote for at least six (6) months
   immediately preceding the election.

Question 7

T or F

Naturalized citizens may vote.

Answer 7

True.

Question 8

T or F
The state may regulate said right to vote by
imposing statutory disqualifications, with the
restriction, however, that the same do not amount to,
as per the second sentence of the provision, a “literacy
property or other substantive requirement.

Answer 8

True.

Question 9

T or F
The Congress shall provide a system for
securing the secrecy and sanctity of the ballot as well
as a system for absentee voting by qualified Filipinos
abroad.

Answer 9

True.

Question 10

T or F
The Congress shall also design a procedure for the
disabled and the illiterates to vote without the
assistance of other persons. Until then, they shall be
allowed to vote under existing laws and such rules as
the Commission on Elections may promulgate to
protect the secrecy of the ballot.

Answer 10

True.

Question 11

What law provides for absentee voting?

Answer 11

The overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003/2013
R.A. No. 9189 (amended by R.A. 10590) was enacted
in obeisance to the mandate of the first paragraph of
Section 2, Article V of the Constitution that Congress
shall provide a system for voting by qualified Filipinos
abroad.

Question 12

T or F

An absentee voter can vote for district representatives.

Answer 12

False.