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00:00Now we will talk to the Commission on Elections on the start of printing balotas again. Good morning Communic Chairman George Garcia.
00:09Good morning sir Egan and to our fellow countrymen. Good morning.
00:14According to the information given by Ivan, starting today, our target is to print 1.5 million balotas every day.
00:23What sir Ivan showed earlier are the two machines that we are using, but there are still four machines that the National Printing Office will use so that all of them will be six.
00:36We also placed the National Printing Office under the jurisdiction of Comelec.
00:41We did that. We advertised them so that all of the processes that we will do in the National Printing Office will be faster.
00:48The information given by sir Ivan is correct. All of the 73 million balotas will pass not only through the machines,
00:58but also through the eyes of our people to know if the measurements are correct, if the colors are correct,
01:05if the names of the candidates are correct and the circles before the names of the candidates.
01:11The quality control that we are implementing is very high for the printing of our balotas.
01:17Until when, Chairman, do you think everything will be done to print these balotas?
01:22Sir Egan, our April 14, our original timeline, should be April 14.
01:29If we will have an adjustment, we will think about it later.
01:33But in the meantime, at all costs, we should finish by April 14 because all of these balotas are not perfect.
01:43There are defective balotas that need to be reprinted in the precinct where there are defective balotas.
01:51At the same time, the most difficult thing is to ship out and distribute election paraphernalia in different parts of the country,
01:59especially in remote areas.
02:02This weekend, Comelec held a mock election.
02:06We saw an aberration, the printing of automated counted machines or ACM of balotas.
02:12What is the reason behind your investigation, Chairman?
02:16That's what we're expecting, hiccups and other problems.
02:23The good thing is that we have a mock election so we can adjust correspondingly.
02:28There are voters who, when they vote, especially when the weather is hot, they sweat a lot.
02:38Therefore, when they shade and the shade is thinned, the ink will spread.
02:48The ink will not dry immediately. It will take five to ten seconds for the ink to dry.
02:57Therefore, if the ink reaches the timing marks, the side that is black, it will affect the balota, but it won't affect the other parts of the balota.
03:10Correspondingly, we will have adjustments. That's the good thing when we learned this during our mock elections.
03:19Reaction to the recommendation of the National Citizens Movement for free elections or NAMPREL.
03:26They want us to look at the training of teachers. Can this be done, Chairman?
03:31This day, we will start the training of our trainers.
03:35From now until April, our training will continue.
03:40Not only teachers, but also members of the Philippine National Police,
03:45we are doing replacement training just in case teachers cannot serve.
03:50We need to have such contingency.
03:53In fact, in our training of teachers, PPCRV and NAMPREL are included,
03:59so they can give their advice and advice to our electoral board members.
04:06Chairman, is there no hope for the TRO?
04:09We cannot predict that sir Egan because it depends on the Supreme Court.
04:15What's important is that we will start at all costs this day, sir Egan, on the printing of balota.
04:21Thank you very much Comrade Chairman Atty. George Garcia. Be careful.
04:25Thank you very much sir Egan. Long live.
04:38For more information, visit www.fema.gov