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decentralized system Americans are used to. And Chinese Huawei equipment was said to be
installed in the NEC hardware and network.

Given that PRC cybercriminals hacked the US Office of Personnel Management in 2015,
stealing the personal information of 22 million current and former federal employees, one
imagines they could handle the South Korean NEC system without breaking a sweat.
Particular suspicions centered on the early votes with their QR-coded ballots. The early
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votes heavily and uniformly favored Moon’s party – unlike election day voting. A former
head of the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea’s ‘MIT’)
noted after examining the voting results whereby last-to-be-counted ‘early voting’ results
turned out to be just enough to tip the balance for Democratic Party candidates in district
after district – and by about the same amount. The only explanation for the ‘coincidence’, he
said, was: “Either God did it or it was rigged.”
Regular citizens – even in the face of government pressure – produced additional evidence of
problems with electronic counting machines, counterfeit ballots, ‘throughput’ speeds at
voting sites that would require a voter coming and voting in a matter of seconds, and ballot
‘chain of custody’ issues, among others.
The evidence is detailed, public, and open to challenge – and it is still available.
It was memorialized for posterity by a private organization, One Korea Network(OKN), and
has been published as a White Paper on Electoral Fraud 2020.
Moon Jae In’s response? Call it fake news and conspiracy theories, while putting pressure on
the people who raised the charges. The National Election Commission’s response was
muddled and unconvincing, and it apparently destroyed at least some of the evidence.

The NEC steadfastly resisted attempts at recount and punished anyone who challenged it,
which resulted in numerous investigations against those who raised election fraud concerns.
As evidence of the NEC’s stance towards those trying to examine electoral processes in a
particular locality, the NEC’s Chairman for its Division 1 Cho Kyu-young directly stated a
recount was out of the question and warned he would take “strong actions” against those
who raise election fraud concerns.

Indeed, the NEC filed charges against the Citizens’ Solidarity for Fair Elections for
“distributing false facts” posting stickers encouraging people to vote on the day of the
election (instead of during the early voting period that many people deemed more
susceptible to fraud).
In March 2022 before the South Korean presidential election, the NEC filed charges against
Hwang Kyo Ahn, Min Kyung Wook, and Gong Byung Ho (a professor with his own YouTube
channel covering election fraud) for encouraging the voters to vote on the day of the election,
and highlighting the risks of early voting.

The judiciary and prosecutors appeared mostly uninterested in pursuing election integrity
cases, as were most of the local and foreign media.
Indeed, the South Korean media, including the main so-called ‘conservative’ outlets have
proven remarkably uninterested in pursuing electoral fraud stories. Explanations range from
simple laziness at having to do the legwork necessary to uncover behavior that is intended to
be hidden to fear of being targeted by the government and other parties that might be behind
the electoral wrongdoing. And in some occasions the media is believed to sympathize with
the election manipulators’ objectives.

1 The South Korean electoral system allows for two days of ‘early voting’ (EV) that is held four to five
days before election day when ‘same day’ voting takes place. ‘Early voting’ is considered particularly
ripe for electoral manipulation even beyond the normal vulnerabilities posed by securely storing and
transporting ballots from voting sites to counting locations during the four-to-five-day period between
EV and same day voting.

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