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(File photo) MANILA - Registered female voters outnumber males by at least 1.5 million, according to data from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday. Comelec's Election Records and Statistics Division showed that out of the 65,721,230 eligible voters in the country, 33,644,237 are women while 32,076,993 are men. Of the total, Region 4-A has the highest number of voters with 9,192,205, with 4,852,037 of them females. The National Capital Region (NCR) came in second with 7,301,393, (3,976,902 females and 3,324,491 males). Quezon City has the most registered voters in NCR with 1,4...

(Photo courtesy of Comelec) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday said the start of the printing of the official ballots for this year's elections was "way earlier" than the schedule followed for the similar procedure during the 2019 polls. "We are happy that we started in the second half of January much earlier than in 2019 when the printing started sometime in February. We are hoping with this early start or timely start, we could have a buffer for probable contingencies," Comelec printing committee vice chair Helen Aguila-Flores said during the liv...

Supreme Court (Facebook photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday issued yet another temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Commission on Elections (Comelec) regarding the dismissal of the registration of a party-list organization. The TRO signed by Deputy Clerk of Court Anna-Li Gombio, by authority of Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, gave the Comelec a non-extendible period of 10 days to file a comment on the suit filed by Juan-Pinagkaisang Ordinaryong Mamamayan Para Yumabong (Juan Pinoy). The group sought a TRO on January 3, questioning Comelec for dismissing its petition for ...

(File photo) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has reset the start of the printing of the official ballots for the May 9, 2022 national and local elections on Thursday due to various technical factors. Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said the start of the printing has been rescheduled from Wednesday to Thursday. "The printing committee, taking into consideration various technical factors, has moved the start of printing to a date yet to be announced," he said in a statement. "Tentative start of ballot printing is tomorrow, January 20, 2022." He made assuranc...

(Screengrab from Comelec ballot printing virtual walk-through at National Printing Office) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to start this week the printing of the more than 67 million official ballots to be used in the May 9 national and local elections. In a presentation shown during the virtual walk-through of the National Printing Office (NPO) in Quezon City on Tuesday, Comelec printing committee vice chairperson Helen Aguila said a total of 67,442,714 ballots will be printed -- 65,745,512 ballots for local voting and 1,697,202 ballots for overseas voting. Aguila said t...