"Did Election Commission Staff Come From the Future?… Voter Counts Entered in Advance"

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On election day, the National Election Commission announces hourly voter turnout rates showing how much the number of voters has increased every hour. However, it has been revealed that the election commission entered false voter counts for data compilation more than an hour in advance. A total of 117 such cases have been found in recent elections, yet the election commission has not provided a proper explanation.

Reporter Park Chan-beom has the story.

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This is a document submitted by the National Election Commission to the National Assembly titled "Initial Entry Times for Hourly Voter Counts in the June 3 Local Elections."

Election commissions in each town, township, and neighborhood enter the cumulative number of voters into the computer system every hour on election day, but suspicious details are found at voting stations 1, 2, and 3 in Haan 4-dong, Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province.

The number of voters as of 12:00 PM is recorded as being initially entered at 11:26 AM, and just two minutes later at 11:28 AM, the voter count as of 1:00 PM is shown as having been initially entered.

Critics have pointed out that this constitutes false data entry, as the voter counts were inputted in advance when more than an hour and 30 minutes remained until 1:00 PM.

[Ju Jin-woo / People Power Party Lawmaker : Did the election commission staff come from the future? Unless they rode a time machine, it is impossible to enter future numbers in advance.]

Based on data from the election commission, People Power Party lawmaker Ju Jin-woo stated that there were 117 cases of so-called "time-machine manipulated entries," 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.

During the last general election, voting stations in Bulgwang 1-dong, Seoul—dubbed "twin polling stations" because the hourly increases in voter counts were identical—were confirmed to have batch-entered their 2:00 PM voter counts at 12:33 PM, 1 hour and 27 minutes early, and were thus included in these findings.

[Choi Bo-yun / Chief Spokesperson for the People Power Party : The election commission must no longer ask the public to simply trust them. Open all records and prove the truth before the public.]

In response to an SBS inquiry requesting an explanation regarding the allegations, the National Election Commission stated that it "has no official stance to release."

(Video reporting: Oh Young-chun, Bae Moon-san; Video editing: Nam Il; Design: Park Chun-woong, Kim Han-gil)
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