Boxes containing ballots are stacked inside a counting center at Olympic Park in Seoul on Thursday as members of a parliamentary committee investigating the June 3 local election ballot shortage visit the site. Photo by Asia Today / National Assembly Press Corps
July 7 (Asia Today) -- South Korea's ruling Democratic Party signaled Tuesday it would accept a review of 2.47 million ballots stored at Olympic Park in Seoul after ballot shortages disrupted the June 3 local elections.
The National Election Commission reported to a parliamentary investigation committee that it could conduct a public recount and verification process at the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium before moving the ballots to the commission's headquarters in Gwacheon.
The ballots include those from the Seoul mayoral election, Songpa District Council races and Jamsil 7-dong polling stations. They have remained at the gymnasium for more than a month after protests outside the venue prevented their transfer to the election commission's headquarters.
Han Byung-do, acting leader and floor leader of the Democratic Party, said during a party meeting that the ruling party would "actively review" a recount plan pursued by the parliamentary committee.
