Number of People Protesting Paper Ballot Shortage Drops Significantly in Seoul
With the number of protesters dropping to just 950 this shows that the government’s vow to investigate what happened with the ballot shortage must have helped defuse the situation. It will probably be blamed on incompetence of some kind and someone being fired:
Hundreds of protesters rallied for a fourth straight day Monday outside a vote-counting facility in Seoul, demanding a new election over ballot shortages during last week’s local elections.
As of 9:30 a.m., approximately 950 protesters surrounded SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium in Songpa Ward, according to an unofficial police estimate. Protesters blocked the stadium’s 10 entrances to prevent the removal of ballot boxes.
It marked a sharp drop in the number of protesters after around 8,000 people gathered around midnight Sunday.
The protests have continued after voting was temporarily suspended at 22 polling stations nationwide on Wednesday due to a lack of ballot papers, according to the National Election Commission (NEC).
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