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More than 100 instances have been uncovered where the National Election Commission entered voter turnout numbers in advance while voting was still ongoing. For instance, the voter turnout for 12:00 PM was entered at around 11:30 AM. The commission is now failing to provide a proper explanation.
Reporter Park Chan-beom has the details.
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This is a document titled "Initial Input Times for Hourly Voter Numbers in the June 3 Local Elections," submitted by the National Election Commission (NEC) to the National Assembly.
Local election commissions in towns, townships, and neighborhoods enter cumulative voter counts into the computer system every hour on election day. However, a questionable pattern appears at polling stations 1, 2, and 3 in Haan 4-dong, Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province.
The records show that the number of voters for the 12:00 PM benchmark was first entered at 11:26 AM. Just two minutes later, at 11:28 AM, the voter count for the 1:00 PM benchmark was reportedly entered for the first time.
Critics have pointed out that this constitutes a false entry, as the data was logged well over an hour and a half before 1:00 PM.
[Joo Jin-woo / Member of the People Power Party: Did the NEC officials come from the future? Unless they traveled in a time machine, it is impossible to enter future numbers in advance.]
Based on NEC data, People Power Party lawmaker Joo Jin-woo stated that there are 117 cases of what he calls "time machine data manipulation"—where hourly voter counts were entered more than an hour early—spanning the recent June 3 local elections, the previous presidential election, and the general election.
This includes polling stations in Bulgwang 1-dong, Seoul, previously dubbed "twin polling stations" during the last general election because their hourly voter increases were identical. It was confirmed that their 2:00 PM voter numbers were entered in bulk at 12:33 PM, a full hour and 27 minutes early.
[Choi Bo-yun / Chief Spokesperson of the People Power Party: The NEC must no longer demand that the public blindly trust them. Open all records and prove the truth before the people.]
In response to SBS's inquiry for an explanation regarding these suspicions, the National Election Commission stated that it "has no separate official stance."
(Camera, Oh Young-chun and Bae Moon-san; Video Editing, Nam Il; Design, Park Cheon-woong and Kim Han-gil; Data Provided by the Office of Lawmaker Joo Jin-woo of the People Power Party)
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