Chungcheongbuk-do Election Commission Issues Public Apology Over Electoral Register Omission... Kim Younghwan Says "Cannot Accept Election Results"

Election Commission Discovers Omitted Voters in Register During Polling

The Chungcheongbuk-do Election Commission issued a public apology on June 8 regarding the insufficient preparation of voter lists during the June 3 local elections.

In its statement of apology, the Chungbuk Election Commission said, "On June 3, due to the lack of preparation of the voter list at the Seonghwa-Gaesin-Juklim-dong 5th polling station (located in the management office of Gaesin Jugong 1st Apartment Complex), we deeply apologize for causing inconvenience and concern to the residents who came to the polling station to exercise their valuable right to vote."

On the 29th, the early voting day for the 9th nationwide local elections, a traveler is casting a vote at the early voting station set up in the Passenger Terminal 2 tunnel of Incheon International Airport. 2026.5.29 Photo by Jinhyung Kang

According to the commission, on the day of the election, June 3, the Chungbuk Election Commission discovered just after 6:10 a.m., ten minutes after voting began, that some voter list numbers were missing. Specifically, registration numbers 2842 to 4137 on the voter list were omitted. About twenty minutes later, at approximately 6:30 a.m., the commission replaced the list with a corrected voter list.

The commission also stated that it made announcements and provided guidance to voters who were unable to cast their ballots due to the voter list issue.

The Chungbuk Election Commission said, "We will accurately identify the causes and problems to ensure that such incidents, which inconvenience voters' participation, do not recur, and we will establish measures to prevent this from happening again. We sincerely apologize once more for the disappointment caused by our inadequate preparations."

Meanwhile, Kim Young-hwan, the former governor of Chungcheongbuk-do, who sought reelection as the People Power Party candidate but was defeated, addressed the issue on social media, stating, "Even a single case of negligence is election fraud," and added, "I can never accept the results of this election, which undermined suffrage."

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