The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will establish makeshift voting centers in the May 2022 polls.
This as some voting centers in the country have been damaged by Tropical Storm Agaton.
Comelec Executive Director Bartolome J. Sinocruz, Jr. said the makeshift voting centers will make use of wooden materials as it will be temporary in nature.
"These are temporary in nature. We will just approximate the size of polling rooms enough to accommodate the number of voters," he said during the signing of their memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in Manila on Thursday, April 21.
Sinocruz, however, did not say the area or the number of voting centers that was damaged.
He, however, assured that the election paraphernalia to be used in the affected polling precincts have not been damaged.
As for the voting machines, consolidation and canvassing systems, and BGAN, Sinocruz said, they were not damaged by "Agaton."
He explained that the said election paraphernalia are still in transit or ports at that time.