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Comelec: 106K defective ballots within ‘margin of error’
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has identified nearly 106,000 defective ballots that will be publicly burned before the May 9 elections.
Comelec Commissioner George Garcia reported that 105,853 ballots were found with issues such as smudges, uneven cuts, mismatched timestamps, or incorrect colors.
Garcia assured the public that these defective ballots will be presented, accounted for, and burned in the presence of political parties, candidates, and their representatives.
As of Monday, over 55.5 million ballots out of a total of over 67.4 million have already been printed, with the remaining 18% still to be printed.
The Comelec official also mentioned that the ballots yet to be printed cannot be guaranteed to be defect-free.
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