{
  "id": 16975200,
  "title": "Special counsel team moves local election ballots to storage from handball arena",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/special-counsel-team-moves-local-election-ballots-to-storage-from",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T23:32:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/politics/20261029/special-counsel-team-moves-local-election-ballots-to-storage-from-handball-arena"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [
    "Special counsel team relocated 420 ballot boxes from handball arena.",
    "Investigation into ballot shortage during June Seoul local elections.",
    "Lee Tae-han headed the special counsel team's 12-hour inspection."
  ],
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Special counsel team moves local election ballots to storage from handball arena",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/special-counsel-team-moves-local-election-ballots-to-storage-from-16978114",
        "published": "2026-10-28T23:15:24.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}