Comelec prints over half of midterm polls ballots

Updated Thu, February 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM Published Tue, February 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has printed more than half of the 72,097,420 official ballots for the May 12 midterm polls.

As of February 20, 53 percent of the total ballots have been printed, with the National Printing Office (NPO) and Miru Systems handling the task.

Comelec Chairperson George Garcia expressed optimism that ballot printing might be completed by March 9 or 10.

The deadline for the manual and machine verification of ballots has been extended from April 14 to April 20 due to the number of printed ballots and personnel shortages.

Despite the challenges, approximately 12 to 13 million ballots have already been verified.

Ballots printed for regions outside the National Capital Region may be deployed as early as the first week of April.

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