Special Committee to Inspect Sites Where Voting Ballot Shortages Occurred
What do they hope to find this far after the election is already over? I have no idea if something nefarious occurred or if the ballot shortage was just incompetence, but this stunt isn’t going to change any minds because if something nefarious did occur the evidence would have long been destroyed by now:
Wi Chul-hwan (2nd from R, front), acting chairman of the National Election Commission, answers a lawmaker’s question during a meeting of a parliamentary special committee investigating ballot shortages in the June 3 local elections at the National Assembly in Seoul on July 1, 2026. (Yonhap)
A parliamentary special committee looking into ballot shortages during the June local elections will conduct its first on-site inspection this week, officials said Wednesday.
During a plenary meeting earlier in the day, the committee approved a plan to inspect the Songpa District Election Commission and the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium in southern Seoul at 10 a.m. Thursday as part of its investigation into the voting and ballot-counting process.
The committee plans to send an official letter requesting police cooperation ahead of the inspection, considering the ongoing protest at the Olympic Park area over the ballot shortages.
The second on-site inspection, originally scheduled for next Wednesday, has been moved up to Tuesday, though its location has yet to be decided, according to committee officials.
During Wednesday’s meeting, Kang Dong-wan, the acting secretary-general of the National Election Commission (NEC), said the commission was open to the idea of allowing representatives from the ruling and main opposition parties, as well as civic groups, to inspect the ballot boxes stored at the stadium, which served as a ballot counting site on election day.
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