00:00The Commission on Elections of Comelec has confirmed that they are almost done printing the balotas that will be used for the May 12 National and Local Elections.
00:10According to Comelec, they have already printed 64 or 90 percent of the balotas, of which only 8 million balotas are missing, which is expected to end this week.
00:22After printing, it will go through manual and machine verification of the balotas to ensure that there are no defects.
00:29Comelec has also added 300 verifiers, except for 800 who are working to speed up the verification.
00:37According to Sherman Garcia, the use of six printing machines, including state-of-the-art machines from the Mirror System of South Korea,
00:46to achieve a three-week delay in printing is a big help.
00:49Comelec's target is to finish the verification in April and the balotas are ready for the election.
