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Special Counsel Team Moves Local Election Ballots to Storage From Handball Arena

Summary by The Korea Times
A special counsel team on Thursday began moving boxes of ballot papers to a storage facility after taking them out of a handball arena where they had been kept since June's local elections, as part of its investigation into ballot shortages on election day, officials said. Special counsel Lee Tae-han's team removed the ballot boxes from the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium in southeastern Seoul after conducting an on-site inspection of the 2.47 m…

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The ballots for the June 3 local elections in Seoul's Songpa-gu district, which had been placed at the Olympic Park Handball Arena, were removed after Special Counsel Lee Tae-han's team completed a public verification. This comes 147 days after the entry of goods and people was completely blocked due to the so-called "Olympic Park protests" that began on June 5. With the removal of the ballots, the Olympic Park protests

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The Lee Tae-han Special Prosecutor Team has concluded the public verification of ballot boxes being held in connection with allegations regarding the June 3 local elections and has removed them. A full inspection of 2.47 million ballots has been completed, and ballots found to be free of irregularities will be transferred to the National Election Commission for storage. During this process, conflicts arose with ruling party lawmakers who opposed…

On the morning of the 29th, the removal of ballot boxes began from the counting station set up at the Olympic Park Handball Arena in Songpa-gu, Seoul. Lee Tae-han’s special prosecutor team for the National Election Commission began transporting ballots found to be free of irregularities out of the arena around 6:18 a.m. after completing public verification and related procedures. Police deployed personnel around the arena to form a human chain. …

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
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