South Korea special counsel moves local election ballots to storage

· Politics · South Korea

A special counsel team in South Korea began moving boxes of ballot papers to a storage facility on Thursday after taking them out of a handball arena where they had been kept since June's local elections, officials said. The inspection of ballots stored at the Seoul stadium had been under way for seven hours the previous day. The team, led by Lee Tae-han, is investigating ballot shortages on election day, a controversy that has raised questions about South Korea's election management.

Why it matters：The ballot investigation tests confidence in South Korea's election administration, a sensitive issue in a democracy that prizes high turnout.

Key points

  • Ballots had been stored in a handball arena since June.
  • The special counsel team is led by Lee Tae-han.
  • The probe concerns ballot shortages on election day.

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