Comelec starts printing training ballots for the 2025 polls. Johnson Manabat, ABS-CBN News

MANILA — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has started the printing of training ballots at the National Printing Office (NPO) in Quezon City for the conduct of the 2025 national and local elections.

According to Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco, the training ballots are similar to the test ballots and will be used for the training of the trainers, technical support, and electoral boards for local and overseas voters.

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Laudiangco said the actual printing of the official ballots would commence once the official list of candidates for the national and local positions is finalized.

The Comelec targets to release the final list of candidates on its official website by January 2025.

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"Una po naming ilalabas ang final list of national and local candidates sa website this January po then 'yung final ballot face templates, then print na po tayo more or less 68,697,596 official ballots po," Laudiangco said.

For the training ballots, a total of 444,400 training ballots will be printed, he said.

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