KOR
The National Assembly's Special Committee on the Investigation of the June 3 Local Election Ballot Shortage entered the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium in Songpa-gu, Seoul, today (July 2) with the assistance of the police.
This comes 27 days after two ballot boxes from the Jamsil 7-dong No. 2 polling station were moved to the handball gymnasium, which served as the counting station, and the subsequent blockade protests began on June 5.
Upon entering the gymnasium, members of the special committee immediately moved to the basement to personally inspect the stored items and are currently conducting an examination under the guidance of relevant officials.
According to a report by the Songpa District Election Commission, the rental office at the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium currently houses 104 voting records, 27 early voting records, 146 handover documents including ballot boxes and election-related documents, 460 vote counting status reports, 428 to 434 boxes of ballots, 4 ballot boxes from Jamsil 7-dong, election-related documents, logs for receiving and returning absentee ballots, and boxes containing miscast or misclassified ballots.
Also present are ballot sorters, counting machines, laptops for reporting vote counts, other equipment related to the counting process, as well as rented PCs, printers, fax machines, and telephones.
The police warned that any failure to comply with safety measures, such as securing access routes, or acts of assault or intimidation against police officers could be punished under the law for obstruction of official duties. Following the warning, the police forcibly moved the protesters gathered around the entrance one by one to the outside.
(Photo: Yonhap News)
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