The National Election Commission again dismissed allegations of fraudulent elections repeatedly raised by some YouTubers as "baseless claims."
On the 19th, the Central Election Commission issued an explanatory document and said, "The election management system only discloses the results of the vote count at the polling station to the Central Election Commission's website and broadcasters," adding, "There are no program details related to the manipulation."
The NEC also refuted the claim, citing a specific example, that the average vote rate between candidates of the Democratic Party of Korea and the Future United Party (the predecessor of the People's Power) is constant at 63% of the Democratic Party of Korea and 36% of the United Party. Of the 253 constituencies, only 17 constituencies (6.7%) were found to have a ratio of 63 to 36, he said. "The vote ratio alone cannot be the basis for the NEC's manipulation of early voting."
In addition, he explained that concerns about allegations of putting fabricated early ballots into the ballot box in the 22nd general election and 'changing the ballot box' were "not true" and "impossible."
None of the 126 election lawsuits filed in the 21st general election were cited, the NEC said. "It is an act of shaking the foundation of the election system and causing social confusion by raising suspicions of manipulating votes and votes by highlighting only fragmentary aspects due to lack of understanding of the election process."
When President Yoon mentioned the NEC's computer system inspection as a reason for declaring emergency martial law in a public statement earlier, the NEC criticized, "It is no different from self-denial of the election management system in which he was elected president."
Reporter Lee Yu Na from Digital News Team.
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