Special Prosecutor of the National Election Commission requests the Public Prosecution Service and the National Forensic Service to conduct a detailed analysis of the ‘all-ballot ballots taken out’

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hwang Jae-ha = Special prosecutor Lee Tae-han of the National Election Commission, which is investigating the shortage of ballot papers for the June 3 local elections, requested an additional detailed evaluation of ballots for which objections were raised among those taken out of the Olympic Park handball stadium.

The National Election Commission's special investigation team announced on the 9th that it had completed the quantity verification and classification by appraisal type of ballots and ballot storage boxes selected through random verification of Songpa-gu ballots stored at the Olympic Park handball stadium and requested a detailed appraisal from two organizations, the Public Prosecution Office and the National Institute of Forensic Science (National Forensic Service).

The special prosecutor's team explained, "We jointly requested both agencies to respond with the results as quickly as possible, considering the special prosecutor's activity period."

Previously, the special prosecutor's team had independently analyzed whether there were any abnormalities in about 700 ballots that the People Power Party observers requested additional verification among the 2.47 million ballot papers taken out after completing public verification at the Olympic Park handball stadium on the 28th and 29th of last month.

Ballots that require additional verification include ballots that have had surface damage or signs of post-mortem deformation or deterioration in public verification, and ballots that are stiff without any signs of folding or have faint ink.