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We have obtained internal CCTV footage from the Jamsil 7-dong No. 2 polling station, which captures the entire situation after voting concluded. The footage shows Hwang Kyo-ahn, then a candidate for Gyeonggi Pyeongtaek-eul who has claimed election fraud, entering the polling station—an act that appears to potentially violate the law.

Reporter Go Jeong-hyeon has the story.

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At 10:00 PM, after voting ended, tension rises at the No. 2 polling station as someone attempts to enter through the back door.

However, Hwang Kyo-ahn, then a candidate for Gyeonggi Pyeongtaek-eul who has no connection to Jamsil, Seoul, enters the polling station, followed by lawyer Park Joo-hyun, who has consistently alleged election fraud.

Election officials opened the door for them, raising concerns about potential violations of the Public Official Election Act, which restricts entry to the polling station to authorized personnel, such as election staff.

[Kim Jeong-cheol / Supreme Council Member, Reform Party: They allowed a proponent of election fraud theories, who is also a candidate, to enter and film inside.]

Twenty-three hours after the transport of ballot boxes was blocked by protesters gathered outside, on the evening of June 4, an exhausted staff member was carried out by paramedics.

It was not until around 8:50 AM on June 5, when police riot squads entered through the back door, that the ballot boxes were finally transported out.

However, just 13 minutes later, after the police left the polling station, some protesters immediately swarmed inside.

Even though other election materials remained inside besides the ballot boxes that had been removed, the storage area was left unlocked, and not a single staff member remained on-site.

Various election-related documents inside were left vulnerable, and the polling station was effectively occupied for approximately 42 minutes. Comparing the footage before and after reveals a stark difference.

[Kim Jeong-cheol / Supreme Council Member, Reform Party: They should have sealed it through the police and locked it to prevent unauthorized entry. This shows how little the National Election Commission recognized the severity of the situation even at that time.]

At 5:34 PM on June 5, staff returned to the polling station to clean up the remaining items. They collected the remaining equipment, including a large brown box labeled "No. 138" that had been brought in on election day, June 3, and transported them to the Songpa-gu Election Commission.

Within 20 minutes, the polling station was returned to its original state as an apartment complex senior center.

Five days later, on June 10, the court conducted an on-site inspection to find key evidence, such as the boxes containing ballots, but had to return empty-handed.

(Video reporting: Ha Ryung | Video editing: Yoon Tae-ho | Design: Hwang Se-yeon)