Manila, July 14 -- As part of its preparations for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Parliamentary Elections (BPE) set in October, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced on Monday that the printing process of ballots for the mock polls has started.

"Today, the printing of ballots for mock elections, test ballots, is ongoing. We need those ballots for the July 25 mock elections in Tawi-Tawi and Lanao del Sur. Even if we do MOA here, printing has already started. If I'm not mistaken, almost 100,000 in total including the road show ballots," Comelec Chairperson George Garcia said in an interview at the sidelines of the signing of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the poll body, the National Printin...