1/4/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly ABSENTEE VOTING ACT OF 2003," approved on February 13, 2003. [2] Entitled "AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9189, ENTITLED 'AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A SYSTEM OF OVERSEAS ABSENTEE VOTING BY QUALIFIED CITIZENS OF THE PHILIPPINES ABROAD, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.'" otherwise known as "THE OVERSEAS VOTING ACT OF 2013," approved on May 27, 2013. [3] See ponencia, pp. 12-13. [4] 602 Phil. 255 (2009). [5] Id. at 271. [6] 491 U.S. 781 (1989). [7] See id. See also Police Department of City of Chicago v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92 (1972), wherein the Supreme Court of the United States of America held that government may not grant a forum to acceptable views yet deny it from those who "express less favored or more controversial views." [8] See Separate Concurring Opinion of Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio in Chavez v. Gonzales. [9] 569 Phil. 155, 238 (2008). Id. [10] Id. [11] Id. at 238. [12] See ponencia in Chavez v. Gonzales, id. at 205-206; citing Osmeña v. COMELEC, 351 Phil. 692, 717 (1998). [13] See Chavez v. Gonzales, id. at 210 and 238; emphasis supplied. See also Ward v. Rock Against Racism, supra note 6. [14] In Gonzales v. COMELEC, the Court held that "even though the governmental purposes be legitimate and substantial, they cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties when the end can be more narrowly achieved," as in this case. Indeed, "precision of regulation is the touchstone in an area so closely related to our most precious freedoms." (137 Phil. 471, 507 [1969]; emphases supplied) [15] Dated April 23, 2016. [16] See Comment, p. 29. https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/65669 22/60