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The joint investigation team of prosecutors and police, which is looking into the ballot paper shortage incident, is accelerating efforts to reconstruct the events that took place on election day. Today, June 24, the team conducted raids on 12 officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Election Commission and the Songpa-gu Election Commission, seizing items including their mobile phones.

Reporter Jeon Yeonnam has the story.

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The joint investigation team probing the ballot shortage has launched compulsory investigations into officials from the National Election Commission (NEC).

The joint team announced that it conducted raids today on a total of 12 individuals, including three officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Election Commission and nine from the Songpa-gu Election Commission.

This comes 13 days after the team raided the NEC headquarters and the Seoul Election Commission on June 11 to secure internal approval documents, including voting records.

The subjects of today's raids are working-level election commission staff responsible for managing voting in the Seoul area, including those at the Jamsil 7-dong polling station who were in communication with poll workers on election day. All of them are currently considered witnesses.

The joint team seized the mobile phones and other items of these 12 individuals from their offices.

Once the analysis of the seized materials is complete, the joint team plans to summon them for questioning to determine how the ballot shortage was identified, how it was reported within the election commission, and what instructions were given in response.

The joint team is also analyzing materials and findings submitted by the NEC's "Fact-Finding Committee on the Ballot Shortage Incident."

Meanwhile, police investigations are also continuing regarding the "vote counting station blockade protest" at the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium.

Police have identified a woman in her 30s who, on June 16, draped herself in a U.S. flag and blocked employees of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee from entering their offices inside the stadium for approximately two hours, and have summoned her for questioning.

[Are you okay? What was your intention in blocking them? ...]

The police are working to identify and investigate not only this woman but also others who obstructed the entry of sports organization staff, on charges of obstruction of business.

(Video Editing: Kim Yoon-sung)