Election Commission "Not allowed to vote or manipulate votes"...Repeatedly dismissed allegations of election fraud.

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The National Election Commission has repeatedly dismissed the so-called "suspected election fraud," which has been repeatedly raised by some since Yoon Suk Yeol's presidential statement.

In order to change the voting and counting results, it is necessary to physically change the ballot, but there are numerous monitoring processes here, and they said it is impossible in reality.

Reporter Park Kwang-ryul reports.

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President Yoon mentioned the NEC system, which is vulnerable to security, as one of the reasons for declaring an emergency martial law.Although he did not directly mention the word

'fraudulent election', he expressed doubts about how the people would believe in the election results without filtering.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President (last 12th): How can people trust the results of elections when the computer system that manages elections, which is the core of democracy, is so messed up?]

Earlier last year, the National Intelligence Service inspected the NEC's counterpart's security,
It has been announced that it was possible to take out the pre-voting papers of
as well as the official seal of the NEC.

At the same time, there was a "conspiracy theory" that it would be possible to manipulate the results by selecting early ballots in advance.

However, the NEC emphasized that it goes through numerous stages to complete voting and counting.

In order to distort the results by printing early ballots in a separate place, the ballot issuing machine and the certificate required for printing must be secured first.

Furthermore, it is impossible because it has to go through various steps such as lifting monitoring and security systems such as server firewalls, excluding party observers, and disabling 24-hour CCTV monitoring.

It also dismissed the possibility of manipulating votes through the NEC's computer system.

The system is only for disclosing the results of the vote count online and to broadcasters, and eventually drew the line that "changing ballots" is essential to manipulate the vote count.

Furthermore, he said at the time of the NIS inspection, the security control system was stopped for efficient progress, and pointed out that it is inevitable to be discovered in order to pretend that someone who did not actually vote.

[Kim Yong-bin / Secretary-General of the National Election Commission (last 13th): We conducted a simulation at a time when we reduced some of our security measures. From January this year to around March, considerable measures were taken in the process of preparing for the 22nd parliamentary election....]

In fact, the National Intelligence Service also said that it checked about 5% of the total in the announcement of the results of the last inspection and found security vulnerabilities, but could not determine whether it was rigged.

The NEC explained that raising groundless allegations of fraudulent elections is a threat to the democratic system, and that it will do its best to deliver more transparent and accurate election information in the future.

I'm Park Kwang Ryul of YTN.



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