Comelec to shred over 5 million defective ballots
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to shred over 5.2 million printed "defective" ballots for the 2022 automated polls. Comelec Commissioner Marlon S. Caquejo disclosed of the 49.7 ballots printed by the National Printing Office (NPO), 5,288,268 contained smudges or miscut thus considered unusable. He attributed the said "defects" to the…