{"id":180128,"date":"2018-09-05T06:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T10:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=180128"},"modified":"2018-09-05T06:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T10:01:05","slug":"comelec-preps-marawi-village-polls-almost-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/05\/comelec-preps-marawi-village-polls-almost-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec: Preps for Marawi village polls &#8216;almost done&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177336\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177336\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cPercentage wise, we are already 95-percent prepared. So, all preparations are already in place.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\">File Photo By Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work\/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is almost done with the preparations for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in Marawi City on September 22.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec Project Director for Marawi Elections Teopisto Elnas noted that they are 95 percent prepared to hold the said polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPercentage wise, we are already 95-percent prepared. So, all preparations are already in place,\u201d he said in a press conference at the National Printing Office (NPO) in Quezon City on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Comelec spokesman James Jimenez reported that they started printing a total of 76,384 official ballots.<br \/>\nA total of 50,893 ballots were to be printed for village voters while 25,491 ballots are for youth voters.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez noted that the printing of the almost 80,000 official ballots will only run for 75 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, set to be printed are 354 sets of election returns or 177 sets each for barangay and SK votes.<\/p>\n<p>He also reported that a total of 234 and 862 Certificates of Candidacy (COC) were filed for Barangay Chairman and Barangay Kagawad, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>As for the youth polls, Jimenez said 162 COCs filed for Chairman post; and another 193 looking to run for the position of Kagawad.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the poll body has identified five alternative voting centers, where voters from the barangays within the so-called \u201cground zero\u201d will be voting on election day.<\/p>\n<p>These are the Multi-Purpose Hall in Area 4, Barangay Sagonsongan; Marawi Central Elementary Pilot School and Dansalan Integrated School in Area 2, Barangay Sagonsongan; Bito Elementary School in Barangay Bito Buadi Parba; Rorogagus Elementary School in Barangay Rorogagus Proper; and Calocan Elementary School East District in Barangay Calocan East.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 27 affected barangays with 15,096 registered voters are set to vote in the 51 clustered precincts in the five alternative voting centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is almost done with the preparations for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":177336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180128","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}