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taken at the scene showed that ballots for proportional representation parties
(under which the party won seats) were stacked in bundles, not folded.
– The NEC’s excuse when presented with evidence of "pristine" ballots: They
(used) “a special material with the ability to restore the paper to its original
state.”
– Ballots that appear to have been "machine folded" – i.e. identically.
– Ballots that are misaligned, misprinted, miscolored, or improperly formatted.
For example, the right and left margins should always be identical as the ballot
printing machine settings maintain regular margin distances, and the machine’s
"roll printer" cuts from the top, not the side.
– Ballots that appear to have been printed by laser printer, rather than ink-jet
printers as would be the case with legitimate ballots.

– Ballots that are glued together.
– Ballots with unreadable stamps. Early vote ballots should be stamped with the
individual seals of the local election site supervisors. These should be clearly
marked and legible. At the 6 polling station in Songdo 2-dong, Incheon, more
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than 1,000 ballots with red stamps (known as Japanese flag ballots) that could
not be identified as to which polling officer’s stamp they belong to were found.
– The NEC is now allowing a generic stamp, rather than the election official
affixing his personal stamp to each ballot. Observers have pointed out that this
leaves room for manipulation and mass reproduction as ballots can be copied in
bulk in any quantity.
– Ballots with the same distinctive pattern or mark on top of Out-of-District early
voting ballots from specific polling places were found in Geoje, Gyeongnam,
and Seoul, respectively. Since early voting ballots are printed at individual
polling places, it is suspicious that the same pattern is found in other places.

l Procedural issues
– The number of ballots exceeded the number of voters in certain districts –
despite objections from observers.
– CCTV cameras were reportedly covered up at early voting locations, but
uncovered for election day voting.

– Citizen observers at voting locations counting fewer voters than votes
announced on the NEC website. This has been reported in previous elections.
One YouTuber, Han Young-man was arrested for trying to install cameras in
polling stations before the April 10th General Election in order to verify actual
voters and votes announced.
– Voting at improbable speeds. For example, in one location, to handle the
number of reported voters (based on total votes cast) it would have been
necessary for voters to cast their ballot every 4.2 seconds.
– Numerous "chain of custody" complaints involving improperly secured and
monitored ballot storage boxes and storage areas, including evidence of storage
areas that were tampered with.

– Tracking of mail-in votes revealing questionable if not impossible delivery
routes.
– Suspect NEC announcements, such as the official broadcast of voter turnout at
12:53 on April 10th as 49.9%, and 25 minutes later at 13:18 the turnout rate

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