Eligible voters cast their vote for the 2026 local elections at a polling station in Dongjak District, southern Seoul, on June 3. [NEWS1]
Police received 17 calls from polling stations across Gyeonggi Province in the four hours after voting for the 2026 local elections opened Wednesday morning, including reports of disturbances, suspected election fraud and unauthorized photography.
The Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police said the reports came in between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. from across 2,397 polling stations in its jurisdiction.
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At around 7:46 a.m., a complaint was filed from the polling station in Sinhyeon-dong, Gwangju, claiming "something like election fraud had occurred." The incident began when a polling official asked a voter why he had only inserted two ballots. The accused voter claimed he had received only two of the three ballot sheets issued in the round for the selecting the superintendent of education, provincial governor and mayor. An on-site check of the electronic records confirmed that all three ballots had been printed and issued normally. The National Election Commission has been notified and has begun looking into the matter.
