00:00The poll body is playing catch-up on its work to print out a sufficient number of ballots
00:04for all registered voters for the May 12 midterm polls.
00:07After delays in Supreme Court orders to ring state news and candidates,
00:11the poll body disqualified previously. Ballot printing has finally resumed,
00:15as Sir Luis Erispe gets us up to speed on a 13% completion mark by the Kamalek in this report.
00:24With just two weeks since the Commission on Elections started printing ballots for the
00:282025 midterm polls, Kamalek Chief Attorney George Erwin Garcia said,
00:33the National Printing Office has succeeded in printing 9 million ballots. This means
00:38they have completed 13.12% of the target 72 million ballots to be printed with only 62
00:45million remaining. But the Kamalek clarified, their target date to finish is still on April 14,
00:51because even though the printing process may have been expedited,
00:55the manual verification will be thorough. This will ensure all the ballots will be ready
01:00for the elections on May 12. Aside from the printing of ballots,
01:04the Kamalek ais to release policies on prohibiting distributions of sample ballots
01:09on polling precincts on the day of the polls as part of the preparations.
01:14They also advise voters to bring their own companies of sample ballots,
01:29as this will allow faster pacing while voting. Meanwhile,
01:32the Kamalek also looks into the possibility of using malls and gymnasiums as polling precincts.
01:44Kamalek said this will still be discussed with the Department of Education.
01:55From People's Television Network, Louisa Erispe for Balitang Pambansa.
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