Voters cast their ballots after 6 p.m., the official voting deadline, at a polling station in southern Seoul on June 3 due to an earlier ballot shortage. [YONHAP]
Voting for the local elections was temporarily disrupted at several polling stations in Seoul and Incheon on Wednesday after stations ran out of ballots, resulting in waits of more than an hour for some voters.
More than 10 polling stations across the districts of Gangnam, Gwangjin and Songpa in Seoul and Yeonsu District in Incheon ran short of ballots on Wednesday afternoon, according to police and election officials.
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The affected polling stations in the Gangnam, Gwangjin and Yeonsu districts had resumed voting and finished by 7 p.m., but some polling stations in Songpa were still voting as of 7:30 p.m. as they received additional ballots late. Although most voters were instructed to wait until extra ballots arrived, some chose to leave rather than remain in a long line.
