The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will start printing ballots for the mock elections as part of its preparations for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Parliamentary Elections (BPE) planned for October.
Poll chairman George Garcia said about 100,000 mock ballots will be needed for the July 25 mock elections in Tawi-Tawi and Lanao del Sur. He explained that a mock election is held mainly for educational demonstration purposes.
Comelec will begin printing the 2.3 million official ballots for the BARMM elections this August. According to Garcia, the printing process will be completed within one week.
The poll body has also started the “trusted build” process for the automated election system (AES) to be used in the BPE. Trusted build refers to compiling the entire program using pre-evaluated components.
Garcia said the BARMM election will utilize the same automated counting machines used during the May 12, 2025 midterm polls
