Sleepless night in Jamsil as angry protesters block ballot box removal
Overnight protests over voting disruptions caused by a ballot paper shortage in Seoul's Songpa-gu continued into Thursday morning, with demonstrators physically blocking the transfer of ballot boxes to a counting center.
Well past 10 a.m., protesters remained gathered outside Jamsil 7-dong's No. 2 polling station, set up at the Woosung Apartment senior citizens' center, although the crowd thinned as the work day began.
Local reports estimated the crowd at around 200 people at around 8 a.m., incl
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