Sen. Imee R. Marcos pushes for the abolition of printing of voters’ information and instruction sheet (VIIS) as she sponsors Senate Bill No. 308 or an act amending section 185 of the Omnibus Election Code, as amended by Republic Act No. 7904, by abolishing the VIIS. During Monday’s plenary session, September 9, 2024, Marcos stressed how ineffective the VIIS was when used as a means of disseminating information aside from being expensive for the government. “According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), it costs P6.90 per registered voter to print and distribute in 2022 as there were 65.746 million registered voters in 2022, the cost reached P453-million. With Comelec targeting 71 million registered voters in 2025 for the national and local elections, with the ever-present inflation, the cost of printing and distributing the VIIS for the 2025 national and local elections could very well exceed half a billion pesos,” Marcos explained. “It is clear that as a mean of disseminating election information the VIIS is equated, inefficient, and expensive,” she added. (Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau)
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