Court orders preservation of ballot boxes from Seoul polling stations
A district court issued an order Tuesday to keep ballot boxes and related records from one polling station intact. The order covers four items from a station in Songpa Ward that ran out of ballots during last week's local elections.
koreatimes.co.krA Seoul district court issued an order Tuesday requiring the preservation of ballot boxes and related materials from one polling station that experienced a shortage of ballot papers during last week's local elections. The Seoul Eastern District Court accepted a petition filed by Kim Jung-chul, a supreme council member of the Reform Party, to maintain the boxes and other items from the No.
2 polling station in the Jamsil 7 neighborhood of Songpa Ward. The order covers four items, including the ballot boxes and surveillance camera footage from the station. The court also placed records of messages and texts sent among National Election Commission employees at the time of the shortage under the preservation order.
It rejected other petitions, including one seeking to preserve ballot boxes that had been moved to a different counting center. Ballot shortages occurred at more than a dozen polling stations in Seoul, mostly in Songpa Ward, leading to a temporary suspension of voting at those locations.
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