00:00He was the main printer of balotas for the 2025 election.
00:04He's back again today.
00:06The new ballot faces have been published by the Commission on Elections.
00:10Luisa Erispe is live in the center of the news.
00:14Luisa?
00:17Joshua, the printing of balotas for the 2025 midterm elections is back again.
00:24The Commission on Elections has confirmed that the printing of balotas for the 2025 midterm elections will be completed by April 14, 2020.
00:34Three weeks of delay.
00:36That's what the Commission on Elections is chasing.
00:38Now, the printing of balotas has started again.
00:42But Komalek said that despite the long delay, they are still confident that the printing of balotas for the 2025 midterm elections will be completed by the deadline.
00:50With the help of the National Printing Office, four printing machines will be used to finish 1.5 million balotas per day.
01:02The National Printing Office was deputized by Komalek to help in the printing of balotas.
01:10The National Printing Office will not only provide technical technicians and operators,
01:18and will not only provide physical space,
01:22but the National Printing Office was also deputized by Komalek to provide printing machines with consumables, paper supply,
01:32and everything that will be used to deliver the balotas to the polling places.
01:41What we did was to make it faster.
01:45For example, the printing of an NPO machine can be ongoing.
01:52It's not that fast, it's slow.
01:54We can alter those assigned.
02:00In the distribution of printing of balotas, 35 million will be printed by NPO.
02:0536 million will be printed by Miru.
02:07The appearance of the two balotas is almost the same.
02:11There will only be changes in the process.
02:14Because in NPO, the balotas still need to be cut.
02:18While in Miru, printing machines can cut the balotas directly.
02:22For the new balotas, the names that the Supreme Court has assigned to the national and local positions are included.
02:31This is also based on the balot faces issued by Komalek on their website yesterday.
02:36Aside from fast printing, one of their aspirations is to reduce the number of defective balotas.
02:43In the past, 25-30% of the balotas printed were defective.
02:50They need to be reprinted, so the process takes longer.
02:56There are always defective balotas.
02:58The number of defective balotas should be reduced.
03:01In the past, if I'm not mistaken, the number of defective balotas was half a million in the 2022 elections.
03:07As you can see, all of these balotas were shredded.
03:12Now, we are talking about reducing the number of balotas.
03:15We assure you that we will reduce the rate of defective balotas.
03:23Joshua, even though printers will use different types of balotas,
03:28the Commission on Elections assured that they will use automated counting machines
03:33because the serialization of the names of the candidates is the same.
03:38In order to make printing faster, Komalek, NPO, and Miru added more people
03:44so that balotas will be printed for 24 hours.
03:48For now, the Commission on Elections will prioritize balotas for local absentee voting and overseas voting
03:57because these are their targets.
04:00Next will be balotas for national and local elections.
04:04Lastly, they will print balotas for BARMM parliamentary elections
04:08because the Congress is now discussing the proposed law
04:12that will allow elections for parliamentary elections in BARMM.
