Page 19 - Election Fraud in Korea-ENG-KOR

Participating in Burgeoning Civil War between Honesty and Digital
Fascism

Co-Chair of KCPAC, Dr. Won-Mog Choi
Professor of Law, Ewha Womans University
Prev. Co-President, Professors’ Solidarity for Freedom & Justice

I. What happened since April 2020 in Korea?
The Gangnam district in Seoul, South Korea is well known by the famous YouTube video
“Gangnam Style” and the horse dance in it. For the period of May 2020 – April 2022,
students, housewives, professors and office workers who do not know each other have been
gathering there in almost every weekday at Gangnam. They have forgotten about the horse
dance. Wearing black outfits and holding black umbrellas in their hands, they have been
holding numerous rounds of street protest called ‘Black Street Demonstration.’ It is a series
of protests against alleged fraud in the general parliamentary election that happened in April
2020 in Korea. The reasonable suspicions have been raised strongly and concretely by citizen
experts that the results of the vote count were manipulated by certain individuals or power.
The evidence is prolific. As confirmed by top-level experts in statistics and mathematics,
the statistical results of early voting derived from the April 15th election were unnaturally
uniform and regular, which is paradoxical. In most electoral districts, the number of early
votes was consistently about 10% higher than regular votes for the candidates of the then
left-wing ruling party, whereas it was consistently about 10% lower for the candidates of the
then right-wing main opposition party. In most electoral districts, the number of early votes
was consistently about 10% higher than regular votes for the candidates of the then left-wing
ruling party whereas that of the candidates of then main opposition party (right-wing) was
consistently lower by 10%. According to the statistical analysis made by Professor Walter
Mebane at the University of Michigan who is one of the authorities on detecting electoral
fraud, 7.26% of the vote was estimated to be made by ballot stuffing. As a result, almost all
electoral districts where the ruling party won by a small difference to the opposition party
would be the subject of by illegal manipulation by 7~10% fraudulent votes. There were even
cases where the number of votes was higher than the number of electors, in several districts.

Numerous pieces of physical evidence were also presented by citizens who participated
in the ballot counting process as official observers. It was caught multiple times across the
country that blank ballots were wrongfully placed into the box for the candidates of the
ruling party, and these early voting papers, that should have been printer-printed and
defined in size and format, were irregularly cut off and margins were not the same as the
standard specifications. Besides, there were multiple events where two ballots were stuck
together as if those had been hastily and illegally printed, and where unfolded ballots
marking ruling party candidates were poured out from a single ballot box during the vote-
counting process. The seals that should have been sealing the ballot boxes were taken off or
damaged. It was discovered that the National Election Commission (NEC) even gave orders
to cover up security cameras existing in the early voting stations on the early voting day.
There was a situation where ballots from different districts were mixed together when the
box was opened. The possible scenario of electoral rigging by pre-programming was strongly
suggested by people’s testimony and circumstantial evidence. A whistleblower explained
publicly and in detail how to connect the ballot sorting machines to the external network. It
was also discovered that there were electronic parts inside the ballot sorting machines that
could possibly be programmed to manipulate the ballot counting as desired. Moreover, the
NEC illegally and deliberately used QR codes instead of barcodes only for the early votes.
Given that a significant portion of the election equipment used by the Commission was a

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