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(File photo) MANILA - More than 17 million official ballots to be used in the May polls have so far been printed since the start of the printing process last month, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) reported on Tuesday. Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said as of Monday, a total of 17,502,631 ballots have been printed out of the 65,721,230 ballots to be printed. "As you can see, we have quite a way to go but it's also very important to note that this is already a significant chunk of the tally work that we need to do," he said in a virtual press briefing. The figure represents the ballots for six regions as well as those that will be used for overseas and local absentee voting. A total of 1,868,798 ballots have been printed for Caraga; 2,298,930 for Zamboanga Peninsula; 3,060,485, Northern Mindanao; 3,236,251, Davao region; 2,606,492, Soccsksargen and 2,588,193 for Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Meanwhile, 86,280 manual ballots were printed