The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will not print more than 71 million ballots for the May 2025 midterm elections.
This was according to Comelec chairman George Garcia who said there are about 68 million registered voters nationwide, but the number will slightly increase as other Comelec satellite offices still have to submit their final lists of new voters.
“I would like to confirm to you that we have more or less 68 million voters nationwide. We already received reports coming from 93 percent of the election officers nationwide,” Garcia said in a viber message.
“If ever there are additional, there would be a modest number of voters,” Garcia added.
“The poll body will only print ballots depending on the total population of the registered voters, including the ballots to be used in the overseas voting and the first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao parliamentary elections,” he explained.
“We are going to print the ballot one is to one. Meaning, we are not going to overprint the ballots because this is an automated election, unlike what happened in the past when there were excess ballots. Now, we will not print excess ballots,” Garcia stressed.
