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Special counsel team moves local election ballots to storage from handball arena

A special counsel team on Thursday began moving boxes of ballot papers to a storage facility after taking them out of a handball arena where they had been kept since June's local elections, as part of its investigation into ballot shortages on election day, officials said. Special counsel Lee Tae-han's team removed the ballot boxes from the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium in southeastern Seoul…

Special counsel team moves local election ballots to storage from handball arena

Special counsel team initiated the relocation of ballot boxes from a handball arena to a storage facility on Thursday, as part of their investigation into a significant shortage of ballots during the June local elections in Seoul. The special counsel team, headed by Lee Tae-han, spent over 12 hours meticulously examining the 2.47 million ballots cast in the Songpa Ward, with the exception of 13 boxes.

Following a thorough on-site inspection at the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium, the remaining 420 boxes of ballots were transferred to a NEC-managed storage facility in the capital area.

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