Ballot printing finished in April – Comelec
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:22:39 +0000
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is confident that the printing of ballots for the May elections would be finished ahead of schedule.
On Wednesday, the Comelec said 60 percent of ballots have been printed, leaving plenty of time for the commission to distribute these around the country.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said a report from the Printing Committee show that 38,347,754 ballots have been printed as of March 19.
These represent 60.24 percent of the 63,662,481 total ballots.
Jimenez said the National Printing Office (NPO) continues to print one million ballots a day. At this rate, “ballot printing might be completed before the Holy Week begins,” Jimenez said.
“If nothing goes wrong, we will be able to finish printing 10 days early,” he added.
The remaining ballots to be printed are for Regions 1, 2 and the National Capital Region (NCR) or Metro Manila.
There are 61,843,750 registered voters for the May 13 elections, but 1,818,731 more ballots will be printed.
Jimenez explained that 1.1 million ballots would be used for the final testing and sealing process, while the rest would be demonstration ballots allotted for vote-counting machines roadshow and demonstration purposes.
The printing of ballots started a month late because of the delay in the release of official names of national candidates. WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL
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