SEOUL: Investigators raided the headquarters of the National Election Commission on Thursday to secure evidence in a widening probe into ballot shortages during the June 3 local elections, legal sources said.
Prosecutors and investigators from a joint prosecution-police task force executed a search and seizure warrant at the NEC office in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, after detecting evidence that some watchdog employees had manipulated statistics in their computer system to cover up errors in voter numbers.
Ballot shortages were reported at multiple polling stations on election day, forcing some voters to turn back without casting their ballots. – Korean Herald/ANN
