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In the two-day advance voting held on Friday and Saturday, the turnout recorded an all-time high.
However, the management of voting for corona quarantines and confirmed cases was a mess.
Reporter Im Tae-woo reports.
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There is no appointment for more than an hour since the previous day (the 5th) at 5 pm for the confirmed and quarantined people who said it was possible.
Voters who have been waiting in the cold wind even with the symptoms of Corona pour out their anger.
[Pre-Vote: Are you voting for this now?
(People have to go inside after the end of the day.) No, then they tell me to come by 6 o'clock.] The
voting started with difficulty, but more confusion arose.
Voters stop election clerks handing out ballots without ID verification.
[Pre-voter: (The confirmed person receives a text message on their cell phone, so they believe it.) Text?
how do you believe that
You are told to check both text and identification?] There
are places where they say that there is no separate ballot box for confirmed cases, and there are places where they are asked to put the ballot paper in the shopping bag, and where the election clerk said that they would put it in the ballot box instead, voters' patience ran out.
[Early Voter: Where is the proxy voting for the ballot box, my God?
It's a presidential election, right?
It's not an election for president...
.]
The management of the voting paper was also poor.
[Pre-vote: I thought it was an empty envelope and just looked at it, and I just saw that there was one (ballot paper) stamped inside.
Even in the midst of such chaos, the early voting turnout for the 20th presidential election was finally counted at 36.93
%, which is more than 10%p higher than the 2017 presidential election or the 2020 general election.