Overseas Voting for Korean Presidential Election is at a Record High of 79.5%
The overseas voter turnout for the Korean presidential election is extremely high. It will be interesting if this race is close if these votes will be what decides it:
The preliminary overseas voter turnout for the June 3 presidential election has reached a record high of 79.5 percent, the election watchdog said Monday.
Of an estimated 1.97 million eligible overseas voters, 205,268 out of 258,254 people registered on the voter roll cast their ballots during the six-day overseas voting period that began last Tuesday, the National Election Commission said.
That tentatively represents a voter turnout of 79.5 percent, the highest since the country adopted absentee voting for presidential and general elections in 2012.
Overseas voting took place from May 20-25 at 223 polling stations across 118 countries.
The turnout rates for the past three presidential elections were 71.1 percent in 2012, 75.3 percent in 2017 and 71.6 percent in 2022. The highest turnout for general elections was recorded last year at 62.8 percent.
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The major issue here is that these overseas votes aren’t even verified. Many Koreans have shared that their citizenship wasn’t even checked or asked for before voting. So, no way to screen for legitimacy. These votes are also apparently mixed with election day of ballots across different precincts. The NEC set this process up and it’s very flawed. The NEC also claime that they can’t distinct overseas and domestic voter rolls, because its database has been “hacked.” NEC is crooked and must be dismantled.
The fix is in.