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into a lame duck session for the remaining years of his term.

Irregularities in the 2024 National Assembly Election

The electoral irregularities highlighted and raised in 2020 and
following the 2022 presidential election have continued in
varying degrees and forms in subsequent South Korean elections.
The 2024 National Assembly election was no exception, as was
the lack of response by the National Election Commission, the
judiciary and others including the media.

Some of the allegations and evidence included:

• Ballot irregularities

– Ballots that are pristine and appear to have never been
handled-nor folded as is the case with nearly all ballots.
According to a lawyer, The Grand National Innovation
Party, founded by Professor Cho Gook, won 12 seats which
is considered a very unlikely result. Photographs taken at the
scene showed that ballots for proportional representation
parties (under which the party won seats) were stacked in
bundles, not folded.

– !e 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.

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