The Joint Investigation Headquarters for Fact-Finding on Infringement of Citizens' Suffrage launched additional raids of the National Election Commission as well as the Seoul, Gyeonggi, and North Chungcheong election commissions over allegations of manipulated voter-count statistics.
In a media notice on the 7th, the task force said it was conducting searches and seizures of the National Election Commission; the Seoul, Gyeonggi, and North Chungcheong election commissions; the Gimpo, Uiwang, and Jincheon election commissions; and the Seocho and Gangnam district election commissions to secure additional evidence on charges of forging public electronic records and obstructing official duties related to indications that election officials falsely entered turnout figures.
The task force also conducted a first round of raids on the National Election Commission and the Songpa, Gangnam, and Seocho district election commissions on the 23rd. At the time, working-level election commission staff in charge of managing local polling stations were said to have arbitrarily revised statistical figures in the system to conceal mistakes in misentering the number of voters.
For example, when 100 people actually voted at one polling station but it was mistakenly entered as 1,000, they would allocate 100 additional voters to 10 other polling stations to hide it and delay further entries until 100 people had actually voted at each of those stations.
The issue, according to reports that indications of falsely entered turnout were found not only in Seoul but also in other regions including Gyeonggi Province, is that when an eup, myeon, or dong election commission misentered the voter count and inquired about how to handle it, the National Election Commission's election management division staff reportedly guided city and provincial election commission officials to disperse the excessively entered headcount to other polling stations within the same eup, myeon, or dong and correct it.
According to an explanatory document the National Election Commission submitted to the National Assembly's Special Committee for the Investigation into the "June 3 local election ballot shortage," additional misentries occurred at three locations: Polling Station No. 2 in Gurae-dong, Gimpo, Gyeonggi; Polling Station No. 3 in Bugok-dong, Uiwang, Gyeonggi; and Polling Station No. 2 in Jincheon-eup, Jincheon County, North Chungcheong.
At Polling Station No. 2 in Gurae-dong, Gimpo, during the process of entering the number of voters by time slot from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., figures were over-entered because the cumulative number of voters up to that time was added again to the reported number from the previous time slot. Afterward, the election commission revised the polling-station-by-polling-station tallies from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. by dispersing the excessively entered headcount to eight other polling stations within Gurae-dong.
At Polling Station No. 2 in Jincheon-eup, Jincheon County, the same type of entry error occurred from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The election commission handled it by keeping the 510 voters entered at 10 a.m. unchanged through 3 p.m.
At Polling Station No. 3 in Bugok-dong, Uiwang, the 2 p.m. voter count was entered as 1,118 instead of the actual 832, and that figure was then entered and saved unchanged through the end of voting. The National Election Commission's position is that these measures involved revising provisional, polling-station-level data, not the final tallies at the district, city, or county level.