00:00Comelec stopped the printing of balotas for the election of 2025 because the Supreme Court of the DRO issued an issue against disqualifying their aspirants and they were ordered to put their names on the balotas.
00:14Sandra Aguinaldo was the one who was appointed.
00:19An emergency meeting was called by Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia.
00:24This was followed by the decision of the Supreme Court that issued a temporary restraining order against Comelec's decision to disqualify some candidates or to not declare them as nuisance candidates.
00:36Their disqualification was included in the case of former Rep. Edgar Erice in running for the 2nd District of Caloocan.
00:54But they will just have to follow the order of the Supreme Court, yes.
00:58This is a problem because the names of Erice and four others are no longer printed on the balotas.
01:04Comelec started printing balotas on January 6.
01:09In a statement, Comelec said that in order to comply with the orders of the Supreme Court, they immediately stopped the printing of official ballots.
01:18The changes to the candidates' database, election management system, automated counting machine, and consolidated canvassing system must be implemented.
01:27There will also be changes to the 1,667 ballot face templates and to its serialization.
01:35There will also be changes to the number of candidates.
01:38The printing of affected balotas will be repeated.
01:41It will also be studied if the trusted build made by the changes to the EMS and database will be repeated.
01:49The disqualification case of Erice will be remembered by a Raymond Salipot,
01:55because he is also involved in the election process or in the manipulation of voters by spreading false and alarming information.
02:05This is in line with Erice's comments about Comelec's contract with Miru.
02:11On January 3, Comelec filed a decision after not being able to receive a restraining order from the court.
02:19First, Erice denied that he violated the provision of the Omnibus Election Code, so he went to the Supreme Court.
02:27For GMA Integrated News, Sandra Aguinaldo, for Tutok 24 Horas.
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