Exclusive: CCTV Footage Reveals Chaos at Polling Station Amid Ballot Shortage

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We continue our exclusive coverage regarding the ballot shortage incident. During the June 3 local elections, the 7th polling station in Jamsil 4-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, was the first to suspend voting due to a lack of ballots. We have obtained CCTV footage from inside this polling station, where voting was suspended and resumed three times. The footage captures the chaos of the time, showing staff running with shopping bags filled with ballots and police officers being dispatched to the scene.

First, here is the exclusive report by Ha Jeongyeon.

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This is CCTV footage from inside the 7th polling station in Jamsil 4-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, on the day of the June 3 local elections.

Around 2:40 PM.

As a poll worker explains something to the voters, they soon begin to turn away.

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

Poll workers appear to be waiting and looking out the window, and soon after, a man rushes in, carrying a shopping bag in a hurry.

These were the additional ballots that had been delivered.

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

About two hours later, at 4:46 PM.

The additional ballots run out as well, leading to a second suspension.

Poll workers count the voters waiting in a long line, write down their names on a list, and then turn them away.

Uniformed police officers are also dispatched to the scene.

At 5:16 PM.

A man runs in again, carrying another shopping bag filled with ballots.

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

[June 3: They said they didn't provide enough ballots for the number of people here from the start, only about 60 percent, because they don't provide 100 percent of what is needed.]

However, at 5:50 PM.

The waiting line grows long again, and with just 10 minutes left until the polls close, voting is suspended for a third time.

While someone appears to be explaining the situation to voters who could not understand what was happening, the doors to the polling station are shut promptly at 6:00 PM.

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

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