Comelec starts printing ballots for May elections

Updated Thu, January 20, 2022 at 7:57 PM Published Tue, January 18, 2022 at 1:40 PM

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced that the printing of official ballots for the May 9 national and local elections began on Thursday, January 20.

The printing commenced with 60,000 manual ballots for local absentee voting.

Subsequently, around 79,000 manual ballots for overseas voting and approximately 86,000 ballots for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) were printed.

The printing of the first automated ballots, also for BARMM, started on Sunday, January 23.

Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez confirmed these developments, assuring that election preparations are not negatively impacted by the adjusted timeline.

Approximately 67.4 million ballots are expected to be printed by April 21, at an estimated cost of P1.3 billion.

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