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…
A special counsel team initiated the relocation of ballot boxes from a handball arena to a storage facility following an investigation into ballot shortages during the June local elections in Seoul, officials disclosed. The investigation, led by Special Counsel Lee Tae-han's team, inspected all 2.47 million ballots over the course of more than 12 hours at the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium in southeastern Seoul, according to the National Election Commission (NEC).
The team discovered an unprecedented shortage of ballots that day, which prevented some individuals from voting.
All 2.47 million ballots, which had been cast in the Songpa Ward, were meticulously examined by the special counsel team and placed in approximately 420 boxes. Out of these, all but 13 boxes were transported to a storage facility managed by the NEC in the capital area, as confirmed by a commission official. The remaining 13 boxes were taken by an unspecified entity.
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