00:00The Commission on Elections, COMELEC, started printing new balotas for the 2025 National and Local Elections.
00:10We have news for you, Louisa Erispe of PTV Live.
00:15Louisa.
00:17Alan, for the second time, the Commission on Elections started printing balotas for the 2025 National and Local Elections.
00:29More than two weeks have passed since the Supreme Court of the Philippines added the names of the balota candidates to the Commission on Elections.
00:38The printing of new balotas that will be used in the elections is back on track.
00:44The Commission on Elections said that even though they were delayed for three weeks due to the TRO issued by the Supreme Court and the withdrawal of some candidates,
00:53they are still confident that the printing of balotas will be completed by April 14.
00:59Because now, the National Printing Office of Printing Balotas is divided by MIRU Systems Company Ltd.
01:06The distribution of printing balotas will be more than P35 million to NPO and more than P36 million to MIRU.
01:13Because of this, 1.5 million balotas will be completed every day.
01:18The Commission on Elections and NPO said that in the past, 25 to 35 percent of the balotas printed were defective.
01:28So now, they will make an effort to print more good balotas so that the process will be faster.
01:34As for the new balotas, there may be slight differences in the printing of MIRU and NPO.
01:40But both will be read by automated counting machines and will not be noticed by the voters.
01:48Alan, for now, the Commission on Elections is leading the printing of balotas for local absentee voting and overseas voting.
01:56In the past, the balotas for the BARM Parliamentary Elections were included in their priority list.
02:01But because there is a bill in the Congress that may be delayed or postponed,
02:07this BARM Parliamentary Elections may be one of the last elections to be printed by COMELEC.
