{"id":114841,"date":"2017-08-29T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T00:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=114841"},"modified":"2017-08-29T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T00:57:35","slug":"comelec-resumes-printing-of-barangay-sk-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/29\/comelec-resumes-printing-of-barangay-sk-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec resumes printing of barangay, SK ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112751\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/COMELEC_Seal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112751\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/COMELEC_Seal.png\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO\/ Comelec (Photo By Source, Fair use)\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/COMELEC_Seal.png 250w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/COMELEC_Seal-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO\/ Comelec (Photo By Source, Fair use)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has resumed the printing of official ballots to be used in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls happening this October.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec Chairman Juan Andres Bautista said the printing of the more than 77 million ballots has started last week after it was temporarily suspended due to administrative problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, last week (<em>nag<\/em>-resume printing). And in fact,\u00a0<em>tinitingnan naman namin, mahahabol naman eh, kasi nga ang isang makina, makaka-imprenta ng<\/em>\u00a01.9 million ballots a day.\u00a0<em>Eh ang<\/em>National Printing Office (NPO)\u00a0<em>natin, merong tatlong makina<\/em>, (Yes, the printing of ballots resumed last week. And in fact, as we see it, we can finish it on time because one machine can print 1.9 million ballots a day. Not to mention that the National Printing Office has three machines.) &#8221; he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The poll body chief revealed that the ballots, which are set to be printed and finished on Tuesday, is for the whole Region 8 (Eastern Visayas).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the poll body has stopped the printing after seeing some problems with their Project of Precincts (POPs) and the number of ballots per precinct.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, the Comelec has so far printed 15,021 official ballots for Batanes, 11,101 for barangay, and 3,920 for SK elections.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month, the poll body has started the printing of the 77,261,086 ballots for the October 23 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The printing of the ballots commenced despite pending proposals in the Senate and House of Representatives seeking the postponement of the village and youth polls.<\/p>\n<p>The Comelec targets to finish printing all ballots in 35 days.<\/p>\n<p>Each printed ballot costs PHP3 for a total budget of PHP231.6 million. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has resumed the printing of official ballots to be used in the Barangay &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[11460,3716],"class_list":["post-114841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-barangay-elections","tag-comelec","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114841","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=114841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}