Election fraud claimant says he secured ballot storage box, plans to submit it to court or investigators

Jeon Han-gil, a former Korean history lecturer, said he obtained a ballot storage box through a tip and plans to submit it to a court or investigative authorities.

Jeon held a press conference Friday afternoon in front of the Jamsil Handball Gymnasium — the site of ongoing protests blocking access to polling stations — and claimed he had long held evidence of election fraud. "Evidence has now been secured on a scale that every citizen can see," he said. "The longer the tail, the sooner it gets caught."

At the press conference, Jeon publicly displayed the ballot storage box he said he had obtained through a tip.

According to Jeon, the box had been at Polling Station No. 2 in Jamsil 7-dong, where a ballot shortage occurred during the local elections. He said it is believed to be one of the boxes the Seoul Eastern District Court failed to secure on June 10, when it visited the site after accepting an evidence preservation motion filed by Kim Jeong-cheol, a senior member of the Reform Party — only to find the boxes already gone.

Jeon said he plans to visit the Seoul Eastern District Court to discuss transferring the box. If the court declines to recognize the item as original evidence or is reluctant to accept it, he said he will hand it over to investigators instead.

Lee Seong-jik, a lawyer representing Jeon, said the box could be submitted to the joint police-prosecution investigative task force probing the ballot shortage as evidence of election fraud by the National Election Commission.

Jeon said he could not disclose the tipster's identity and added that he would announce his next steps after seeing how the National Election Commission responds.

If Jeon's account is accurate, the box he obtained would be one of seven ballot storage boxes the National Election Commission is said to have lost.

Because local elections involve voting for many offices, most polling stations distribute seven ballots to each voter — or eight in the case of by-elections. Polling Station No. 2 in Jamsil 7-dong is therefore believed to have had seven ballot storage boxes in total.

Earlier, the Songpa-gu election commission said the ballot storage boxes collected from Polling Station No. 2 had been disposed of, but did not specify how many boxes were involved.

The box Jeon displayed was labeled "Seoul mayoral election." A box previously photographed by Yonhap at Polling Station No. 2 in Jamsil 7-dong was labeled "local constituency city and provincial council election."

Later Friday afternoon, the Seoul Eastern District Court granted part of an additional evidence preservation motion Kim Jeong-cheol had filed the previous day. In connection with the missing ballot storage boxes, the court called for confirmation of the name of the waste disposal company involved, when the boxes were handed over to it, when they were disposed of, and — if disposal had not yet taken place — where they are currently being stored.

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