"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, circumstances have been uncovered in which the election commission falsely entered the number of voters for tallying more than an hour in advance. Such cases were discovered 117 times in recent elections, yet the election commission has not even provided a proper explanation.

Reporter Park Chan-beom has the story.

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

Eunmyeong-dong election commissions enter cumulative voter counts into the computer system every hour on election day, but suspicious details are found in Voting Stations 1, 2, and 3 in Haan 4-dong, Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province.

The record shows that the voter count as of 12:00 PM was initially entered at 11:26 AM, and just two minutes later at 11:28 AM, the voter count as of 1:00 PM was shown as initially entered.

Because the voter counts were entered in advance more than an hour and thirty minutes before 1:00 PM, critics pointed out that this constituted false data entry.

[Ju Jin-woo / People Power Party Lawmaker : Did election commission staff come from the future? Unless you ride 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 so-called "time machine manipulated entry" cases, where hourly voter counts were entered more than an hour early, totaled 117 instances across the recent June 3 local elections, the last presidential election, and the general election.

During the past general election, voting stations in Bulgwang 1-dong, Seoul—referred to as "twin voting districts" because their hourly increases in voter numbers were identical—were confirmed to have collectively entered their 2:00 PM voter counts at 12:33 PM, 1 hour and 27 minutes early, and were thus included in these cases.

[Choi Bo-yoon / Chief Spokesperson for the People Power Party : The National Election Commission must no longer demand that the public simply trust them. Open all records and prove it before the public.]

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

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