Joo Jin-woo, a People Power Party lawmaker on the special committee for a parliamentary inquiry to investigate violations of citizens' suffrage such as the shortage of ballot papers and to reform election management, on the 18th disclosed the poll book from Polling Station No. 6 in Jamsil 2-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, from the 9th nationwide local elections, which he received from the National Election Commission.
Joo secured the entirety of the election commission poll books subject to the joint police-prosecution investigation team's search and seizure for fact-finding on the ballot paper shortage. The election commissions subject to search and seizure included Gwangjin, Gangnam, Dongjak, Songpa, and Seocho districts in Seoul.
In Songpa-gu, which was known to have the greatest confusion due to the ballot paper shortage, 52 polling station poll books were submitted, excluding those that could not be obtained because of a blockade protest at Olympic Park.
Among them, the poll book of Polling Station No. 6 in Jamsil 2-dong stated that at 2:53 p.m. on the 3rd, they notified that 238 sheets of paper remained and requested additional supplies, but they did not receive a response from the election commission until the papers were completely exhausted.
At that polling station, at 3:52 p.m., they received a reply from the election commission that ballot papers with serial numbers handwritten were being produced, and they requested guidance on what to do after the papers ran out, but it appears they did not receive a response to that either.
Also at 6:17 p.m., numerous errors were found on the handwritten papers, and it was only after several minutes that they realized papers had been issued without the polling manager's seal, indicating poor management of the voting process.
Such confusion also appeared at other polling stations, including Polling Station No. 2 in Jamsil 7-dong.
Joo said, "The on-site confusion, including unnumbered ballot papers, missing seals, and handwritten errors, was revealed as is in the poll books," and added, "Since citizens' suffrage was infringed, the election commission's responsibility for poor management must be thoroughly investigated."