"How Can I Stand in Line If There Is No Line" Lee Joonseok Refutes 'Cutting-in-Line Conspiracy Theory' and Announces Legal Action

A Citizen Protests, "Why Aren't You Standing in Line?" During Early Voting
Conspiracy Theory Spreads Online Despite the Incident Being a Misunderstanding

Lee Junseok, Representative of the Reform New Party, refuted the “cutting in line conspiracy theory” that arose on the first day of early voting for the June 3 local elections, announcing that he would take legal action against the accounts that spread false information.

Screenshot of Lee Jun-seok, Representative of the Reform New Party's Facebook page

On May 30, Lee wrote on his Facebook page, “Many accounts that spread false information quietly deleted their posts and disappeared overnight, but since this is an act that could influence the election, I will file election crime charges against all such accounts, even if they deleted their posts without a word.”

The “cutting in line conspiracy theory” mentioned by Lee began to spread online after a video was released showing a citizen at the Dongtan 9-dong Administrative Welfare Center in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, on the morning of the first day of early voting, protesting to Lee, who was about to cast his ballot, saying, “Why aren’t you standing in line?”

In the video, as Lee proceeded to the machine to receive a ballot following the on-site staff’s instructions, a citizen protested, “Why are you being allowed to skip the line?” Lee stepped back with a puzzled expression. However, it later turned out that the citizen was mistaken.

On Facebook the previous day, Lee explained, “There was no line to begin with,” and added, “The on-site staff told me, ‘Go straight to machine F’ because there was no line, so I did.”

He further stated, “There was no one in front of the early voting ballot distribution machine; it was completely empty,” and “the person who protested mistakenly thought there was a line and stood separately behind the election staff.”

Lee also posted a rebuttal video titled “How can I stand in line when there is no line?” the previous day. He added, “Cable news channels deleted the relevant videos after understanding the sequence of events, but there are still groups maliciously spreading them,” and wrote, “I cannot forgive those who incited such agitation on the day of early voting.”

Lee emphasized, “I will report acts of distorting and spreading facts to the police under the Public Official Election Act, and I will send each and every case to the police station without any settlements or leniency.”

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