Comelec uploads new ballot faces for 2025 elections
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections has made the new ballot faces for the midterm elections available on its website.
The updated ballot faces, uploaded on Sunday, January 26, allow voters across all 18 regions to preview the latest version of their respective ballots after recent changes to the senatorial lineup.
Voters can access ballot designs specific to their regions through the Comelec website's dedicated 2025 National and Local Elections section. This also includes ballot previews for overseas voters and local absentee voters.
The ballots display 66 senatorial aspirants and 156 party-list choices, according to the ballot faces uploaded on the Comelec's website.
The release of these new ballot faces comes after recent printing delays.
The printing of 73 million ballots initially began on January 6 but was suspended when the Supreme Court issued temp against some candidate disqualifications.
This suspension resulted in six million printed ballots being discarded, costing the government about P132 million.
The poll body said its staff worked overtime to update its database and revise 1,697 ballot faces nationwide before resuming the printing process.
With ballot printing set to resume Monday, January 27, Comelec Chairperson George Garcia stressed that the poll body was "out of time" and would need to print 1.5 million ballots daily to make up for previous delays.
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