{"id":112132,"date":"2017-08-15T05:04:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=112132"},"modified":"2017-08-15T05:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:04:46","slug":"guanzon-backs-call-to-slow-printing-of-barangay-sk-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/15\/guanzon-backs-call-to-slow-printing-of-barangay-sk-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Guanzon backs call to slow printing of barangay, SK ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112140\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Commissioner-Rowena-Guanzon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112140\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Commissioner-Rowena-Guanzon.jpg\" alt=\"Commissioner Rowena Guanzon (PNA Photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Commissioner-Rowena-Guanzon.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Commissioner-Rowena-Guanzon-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Rowena Guanzon (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2014 Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon on Tuesday supported the call of Citizens&#8217; Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC) party-list Rep.Sherwin Tugna, chair of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms, for the poll body to go slow in the printing of the ballots.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that funds will go to waste once the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls are postponed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gov&#8217;t funds for ballots will go to waste if elections are postponed. I agree with Cong. Tugna that @COMELEC should slow down on the printing,&#8221; said the poll body official in her Twitter account, @commrguanzon.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez reported that some 15,000 official ballots have already been printed since the printing started last August 9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of August 11, we have printed the barangay and SK ballots for Batanes of 15,021 pieces,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This number can be broken down into 11,101 ballots for barangay and 3,920 ballots for SK.<\/p>\n<p>The poll body will be printing 77,261,086 ballots to be used in the October 23 polls. They are looking to finish the printing in 35 days.<\/p>\n<p>After printing the ballots for Batanes, next to be printed are for the provinces in Eastern Visayas.<\/p>\n<p>Each ballot costs PHP3 for a total budget of PHP231.6 million. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon on Tuesday supported the call of Citizens&#8217; Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[11460,20303],"class_list":["post-112132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-barangay-elections","tag-commission-on-elections-comelec","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}