Former Mapo-gu District Mayor Park Kang-su finds discrepancies between voter counts and ballot counts in the June 3 local elections, submits findings to special prosecutor
That was the title of a Facebook post written Saturday by former Mapo-gu District Mayor Park Kang-su.
"Why are there more ballots counted than people who actually voted?" Park said, adding that he had compared data published by the Mapo-gu National Election Commission related to the district mayor race.
He said the commission's records showed, for example, that 1,000 people in a given dong had cast early votes, while a separate set of tallying data from the same commission listed 1,100 ballots counted for that dong.
Park said the reverse also occurred — cases where 1,000 people were recorded as having voted early, yet the ballot count came to only 950.
What made the discrepancies even harder to understand, he said, was that while the figures for individual dong did not match, the overall total for Mapo-gu added up exactly.
"If 1,000 people voted but there are 1,100 ballots, who cast the extra 100?" Park said. "Did ghosts vote?"
He posed the opposite question as well: if 1,000 people voted but only 900 ballots were counted, where did the remaining 100 go — were they simply dropped from the tally?
Park also said he could not understand why figures related to early voting, which had already concluded, appeared to have decreased.
Park submitted these findings to the special prosecutor investigating the June 3 local elections.
"The basics of an election are simple," Park said. "The number of people who voted and the number of ballots counted must match exactly."
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