EXCLUSIVE: CCTV Footage from Polling Station Shows 'Hectic' Delivery of Ballots in Shopping Bags

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We have obtained exclusive CCTV footage from inside the polling station where the voting suspension incident first occurred during the June 3 local elections. The video clearly captures the chaotic scene as individuals rushed into the polling station carrying shopping bags filled with ballots.

Reporter Ha Jeong-yeon has the story.

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This is CCTV footage from inside Polling Station No. 7, located in Jamsil 4-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, on the day of the June 3 local election.

It is around 2:40 PM.

As election officials explain the situation to voters, the voters begin to turn away.

This marks the moment when voting was first suspended due to a shortage of ballots.

Election officials are seen looking out the window as if waiting for something, and soon after, a man rushes in, hurriedly carrying a shopping bag.

These were the additional ballots being delivered.

Two minutes later, at 2:42 PM, voting resumes.

About two hours later, at 4:46 PM, a second suspension occurs as the additional ballots run out as well.

Election officials count the voters waiting in a long line, record their names on a list, and turn them away.

Uniformed police officers also arrive at the scene.

At 5:16 PM, a man again rushes in carrying a shopping bag filled with ballots.

Voters who had been waiting outside begin to line up again, and voting finally resumes more than 30 minutes after the suspension.

[June 3: They said they didn't provide enough ballots for the number of people here from the start, only about 60 percent, and that they aren't supposed to provide 100 percent.]

However, at 5:50 PM, the waiting line grows long again, and voting is suspended for a third time, just 10 minutes before the polls are set to close.

While someone appears to be explaining the situation to frustrated voters, the doors to the polling station are firmly shut as soon as it hits 6:00 PM.

This CCTV footage was secured through an application for evidence preservation filed with the court by Kim Jeong-cheol, the former Reform Party candidate for Seoul Mayor.

(Video Editing: Kim Yoon-seong, Design: Jegal Chan)
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