Court orders preservation of evidence in ballot shortage case
A Seoul court on Tuesday ordered the preservation of ballot storage boxes and other materials from a polling station in Songpa-gu as evidence in potential litigation over a ballot shortage incident during the June 3 local elections.
The Seoul Eastern District Court made the decision after partially accepting a request filed by Kim Jeong-cheol, a supreme council member of the minor Reform Party who ran in the Seoul mayoral election.
In addition to the ballot storage boxes, the court ordered the p
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