Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Under the law, “every barangay shall have at least one precinct. Each precinct, shall have no more than two 200 voters and shall comprise contiguous and compact territories.” This means there’s a limit to the number of voters per precinct. However, if there are more than 200 registered voters in the particular area, the creation of daughter precinct/s is done, which is attached to the mother precinct. During elections, what COMELEC does is to group several precincts together and make it into a single clustered precinct. For barangay elections, it’s usually 2-3 precincts grouped together, while in automated elections, more established precincts are grouped together to form one clustered precinct, with a dedicated counting machine. You can group more established precincts together for an automated elections, because the Electoral Board (previously called the Board of Election Inspectors – BEI) no longer count the ballots, unlike in manual elections.