Ballot papers are counted at a ballot counting station in Seoul's Songpa Ward, Friday, after election officials brought ballot boxes from a polling station in the ward following police's breakup of protestors there over a shortage of ballots during the June 3 local elections that prompted them to block election officials from removing ballot boxes. Yonhap
The final vote count for this week's local elections was completed Friday, two days after a shortage of ballot papers disrupted voting at over a dozen polling stations in Seoul.
Election officials declared the final tally for the June 3 vote after reflecting the results from two ballot boxes that were counted belatedly due to a blockade staged by protesters alleging election fraud.
Earlier in the day, police dispersed a crowd of protesters and secured the ballot boxes, containing around 2,000 ballots, at a polling station in Seoul's Songpa Ward.
Friday's tally did not significantly alter the election results, including the razor-thin Seoul mayoral race.
