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00:00We will not continue the Commission on Elections or COMELEC reprinting of ballots today.
00:13This is the result of the new temporary restraining order of the Supreme Court while COMELEC will declare that the two aspirants are nuisance.
00:21Before that and other issues in the election of 2025, we will continue with Comelec Chairman George Garcia.
00:27Chairman Garcia, good morning.
00:29Good morning sir Egan and good morning to our countrymen.
00:33When is our new target for reprinting of ballots?
00:37Thank you Egan. We should really start reprinting of ballots today.
00:42But because of the two new temporary restraining orders, especially the national position, we will start this Saturday.
00:49Because sir Egan, we need to change the database.
00:52Number two, we need to serialize the new ballots.
00:55Number three, we need to prepare the 1,697 ballot phases of the country.
01:03Every town and city has a different ballot, sir Egan, because the candidates have different local positions.
01:10The Supreme Court said that they have a pending 25 petition of aspirants and 22 from the party list.
01:17Aren't we being delayed Chairman?
01:22Yes. We are expecting to increase the petition in the Supreme Court.
01:26Because sir Egan, we declared 117 nuisance candidates in the Senate, 17 in the Congressmen, 67 in the local positions,
01:34we canceled more than 100 candidacies and 200 party lists that we did not allow to participate in the upcoming elections.
01:43That's why they are expected to go to the Supreme Court.
01:46If there's a TRO, the Supreme Court is dependent on us.
01:54We will follow the orders of the Supreme Court. At the same time, that is also a violation of the Constitution.
02:02Isn't this new? Didn't the nuisance candidates go to the Supreme Court before?
02:07Yes sir Egan. Sir Egan, in the past, a TRO was able to get a candidate for vice president in 2016.
02:15After that, two party lists were obtained by the TRO and there were two more candidates.
02:20However, Comelic did not comply at that time because it was in the middle of printing balotas.
02:25That's why all commissioners at that time were assigned in contempt by our Supreme Court.
02:30Of course, until now, we can continue. We will continue.
02:35That's what we are defending because that's our rule of law and our recognition of the power of the Supreme Court.
02:41The scheduled mock election on Saturday, will it continue chairman?
02:45We will continue that sir Egan. It's not affected by this TRO because our election management system has been changed.
02:53We can add to it and we have a so-called trusted bill.
02:57Therefore, the mock election will continue here in our country and abroad,
03:02to try the integration or coordinating of our various systems and preparations for the election.
03:09Can you explain what is a trusted bill and how important it is in the election management system?
03:15That's the first requirement of the law. Number two, we need to know the hardware and software of the system that we will use,
03:23whether it's internet voting, whether it's transmission, whether it's the machines.
03:28Does it mean that the house is ready to ensure that it will vote correctly and transmit correctly?
03:34Are the documents provided by our providers complete and is that for the international standard?
03:41Later on, we expect that the international certification will be issued, the international certifying body,
03:47because it's included in the automated election law.
03:51Are there additional features in the election management system to ensure that once the TRO of the Supreme Court is issued,
03:59we can easily adjust to the balota?
04:02Yes. Because our features are more transparent, even the machines. At the same time, it is ensured that there are a lot of copies of the results
04:12from the precincts, PPCRV, NAMPREL, majority party, minority party and of course the cities.
04:20The media has its own results to get. Of course, our countrymen will see all the balot images, pictures of balota,
04:30after counting, after transmitting, after collecting the results and giving copies to each precinct that has the right to get it.
04:39Sir ma'am, there are people who are saying, why don't we wait for all the petitions to be completed before we print them?
04:48It cannot be reprinted.
04:51Yes. Remember, we should have printed the petitions. It's still the third week of December, but we are still waiting.
04:59Aside from this, we did this on January 6. Technically, we incurred a slight delay, but we are still waiting, sir Egan.
05:08We cannot wait because we don't know when the losers will go to the Supreme Court or not.
05:17It depends on them. Some will go right away, some will wait. Maybe now, because someone got a TR, they will go to the Supreme Court.
05:26Are we still on schedule, chairman? Or maybe our upcoming election will be discarded?
05:33We will continue. Our election on May 12 is the guarantee, sir Egan, of your commission elections.
05:39We have balota. When May 12 comes, that's also the guarantee of the commission elections.
05:43We were delayed a bit because we spent two weeks printing six million balotas.
05:50Of course, we have an adjustment. But we have contingency measures.
05:56There are regulations and we included the National Printing Office as a deputized agency of COMELEC.
06:04We did that for the first time so that we can print balotas for all the regulations.
06:10What is the adjustment of COMELEC so that it won't be repeated in our big Union 2028 national election?
06:15First, we should proceed with the amendment of the law.
06:19As you can see, the omnibus election code is a manual memorandum.
06:22We will implement all those laws towards an automated election.
06:27It's very difficult to combine the two, automated and manual.
06:32So we should reverse the omnibus election code.
06:34Number two, we are considering the early filing of the candidacy in mid-October, which is already early.
06:40We can do it in July so that we can have a longer time to make a decision and go to the Supreme Court,
06:48for example, if we won't lose in our decisions.
06:50However, there are some compromised activities, such as the registration of voters.
06:55Chairman, thank you very much. Comelec Chairman George Garcia. Be careful.
06:59Thank you very much sir Egan.
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