"Voter Numbers Misentered"... Vote Statistics Manipulated in Gimpo, Uiwang, and Jincheon During June 3 Local Elections

Maintaining the Total Voter Count
Adjusting Figures by Polling Station
Redistributing Overcounts for Correction

It has been confirmed that the regions where the election commission misentered the number of voters in the June 3 local elections are Jincheon County in Chungbuk, as well as Uiwang and Gimpo in Gyeonggi Province.

According to the legal community on the 28th, the central election commission explained in documentation submitted to the National Assembly Special Committee for the Investigation of the Ballot Paper Shortage Crisis during the June 3 local elections that they handled the erroneous entries by maintaining the previously released total number of voters at the district level and adjusting the figures by polling station.

It has been confirmed that the election commission misentered the number of voters in the June 3 local elections in Jincheon County, Chungbuk, and Uiwang and Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province. Photo by Yonhap News.

In some township and neighborhood election commissions, voter numbers were inadvertently over-entered due to mistakes. When asked how to handle these excessive entries, the official in charge of election administration at the central election commission instructed local officials to redistribute the excess counts to other polling stations within the same jurisdiction as a method of correction.

The locations where voter entry errors occurred have been confirmed as follows: Jincheon-eup No. 2 Polling Station in Jincheon County, Bu-gok-dong No. 3 Polling Station in Uiwang, and Gurae-dong No. 2 Polling Station in Gimpo.

In Gimpo, the excessive entries were redistributed among other polling stations to adjust the figures. In Jincheon County and Uiwang, the number of voters reported was maintained at the erroneously entered figure until it was surpassed by subsequent updates.

At Gurae-dong No. 2 Polling Station in Gimpo, an error occurred during the tallying of hourly voter numbers from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. when the cumulative number of voters was repeatedly added to the previous report, resulting in a significant overcount.

After this, the election commission corrected the excessive entries by redistributing them across eight other polling stations in Gurae-dong, updating the individual station figures for every hour between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

In the case of Jincheon County, during the entry process for voter numbers between 8 and 10 a.m., excessive numbers occurred as the cumulative total up to that time was added to the previous hourly report. Subsequently, the number of voters entered at 10 a.m.—510—was consistently entered and saved as the same figure through 3 p.m.

In Uiwang, the voter number at 2 p.m. was erroneously entered as 1,118 instead of the actual count of 832. This incorrect number was maintained and saved as the reported figure until the poll closing time.

The election commission explained, "Correction of the district-level voter numbers requires approval from the provincial election commission. However, voter numbers entered for each polling station at the township or neighborhood level are considered provisional data for district reporting and can be revised without separate district commission approval."

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