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ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Commission on Election (Comelec) is set to
conduct an information and education campaign in the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in preparation for the coming
automated election, reported the Philippine News Agency.
Sulu provincial election supervisor Vidzfar Juli
said the information and education drive is a pre-requisite to
inform and educated the voters about the new system of elections to
be conducted in August.
Juli said the Comelec had set the date from
March 23 to 26 for the information and education drive in the
provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces.
The information campaign for the rest of the
ARMM areas that include the provinces of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao
and Sharrif Kabunsuan and Marawi City are scheduled on another date,
according to Juli.
The election in Maguindanao will be fully
automated from voting up to the counting of votes while the rest of
ARMM areas will only have automated counting of votes.
More than one million registered voters are
trooping to the polling precincts on August 11 to elect a new set of
ARMM officials that would serve for a three-year term.
They will elect a regional governor,
vice-governor and members of the Regional Legislative Assembly that
would represent each of the six provinces and one city in the RLA.
The Comelec central office has already conducted
the bidding for the purchase of the needed machines to be used in
the automated polls in ARMM.
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