Chosun Ilbo Bo-sik Choi, Senior Reporter
[The Person Who Met Bo-sik Choi]
[Tracking the ‘Electoral Fraud’ theory… Joo-hyeon Park, former Special Inspection Officer of the Blue House]
The votes were not inclined to the ruling party because the early voting rate was low in the electoral district with a high vote rate of the ruling party… The number of early voting of some polling places had to keep 12.6 people per minute to match that many votes.
“As I opened the pre-voting box of the Guri City electoral district in Gyeonggi Province, the ballots stamped with No.1 came out like a bunch of new bills. In some precincts, there was a ballot printed drawn to one side and also, a ballot with a long margin below. In the video of Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, two pre-voting ballots were stuck as a slip. The pre-voting ballot is usually printed out with the issuer every time the elector comes, but how is this possible?”
Joo-hyeon Park (41), former Special Inspection Officer of the Blue House, participated in ballot box evidence preservation of six electoral districts. He is a lawyer who has directly run the ballot storage site. He has collected facts like a news reporter over alleged manipulation of pre-voting.
Lawyer Joo-hyeon Park said, “It was a false claim that a large number of supporters from the ruling party had come and voted in advance.” / Choi Bo-sik, Reporter
―I heard that you took the picture of that bunch of pre-voting ballots that were bound by 100 pieces like new bills in the voting box. High-ranking officials of the past and current NEC reacted by looking at the photos of the stiff ballots that are not the official standard, and said they were “hard to explain.”
“The ballot boxes of Bundang-eul were in an empty exhibition hall. No CCTV was found, and the door lock was a numeric keypad. It was poor standard for security, perfect for the manipulation of ballots if they wanted to. The ballot box in Namyangju’s electoral district was illegally stamped with the seal of the secretary-general, instead it should have been stamped with the stamp of the regional Election Commission’s chairman. I asked, “Isn’t this against the law?” He replied, “It’s good if you have a lot of stamps.” There was also an open ballot box.”
―There have been issues with some torn off seals, ballot stamps, stamp pads, ballot box lid pins, and voting booth curtains, etc. and that they were all discovered in the incinerator of the Namyangju logistics warehouse.
“This is where I went to research the evidence-based conservation [possible evidence of election fraud]. This evidence was found in a nearby incinerator by South Korean citizens, in this remote area with no one around for miles.”
―I heard that in the process of storing the ballot boxes, all of the election equipment was discarded at the same time. The does not the NEC think this is suspicious.
“There was a new ballot stamp that still had its original plastic packaging. The ballot stamp contains ink like a fountain pen, so a stamp pad is not needed. However, a stamp pad was found. On the evening of April 11, the last day of the pre-voting, a scene was recorded where an employee came to the ballot box storage place and tampered with the seal. Several cases were reported where the seal on the original ballot box and the seal on the vote counting day was different.”
―Maybe they mistakenly put the seal on and then tried to correct their error?
“When counting votes, usually we tear off the seal around the lid of the pre-voting box, but the seal pasted to the hole in the center of the lid was torn off which I discovered, when I went to Incheon Yeonsu-eul to carry out the investigation. The seal attached to the hole in the center of the lid was torn. The pin was also pulled out to open the ballot box. After raising my concern about this, all the ballot box seals were removed from the evidence preservation of Yuseong-eul in Daejeon.”
―It’s a ballot box that was already counted, maybe that is why they paid less attention to it?
“There were too many damaged seals or ballot boxes. In the ballot counting video, you can see a bunch of stiff pre-voting ballots coming out at once, which are distinct from other ballots. A strange thing happened in Bongdam-eup (the first and second polling station in Hwaseong), which was part of Hwaseong-byung district and then became part of Hwaseong-gap in early March, due to the redrawing of the electoral district. The total number of pre-voting in Bongdam-eup was completely omitted from the NEC data.”
―Is it possible the failure to input the changed district into the computer data processing program was a simple mistake?
“The total number of pre-proportional votes for the entire jurisdiction of Hwaseong city (1st ~ 18th polling place) was counted as 8665 by the NEC. This means this number was included in the Hwaseong city’s pre-voting. However, the number of pre-proportional votes in the jurisdiction of Hwaseong-byung, which consists of the 3rd to 18th polling stations without Bongdam-eup, is 8665. Pre-voting results from Bongdam-eup have disappeared completely.”
―It’s a serious act of negligence, how did the Hwaseong NEC explain it?
“They only claim that the pre-vote for the jurisdiction was counted together with, votes from outside of the jurisdiction, but they cannot prove it. In the case of pre-voting, the number of people who voted is not counted at the polling place. It is calculated by the central NEC and the NEC reports that ‘a certain number of people voted at that polling place.’ That means the number of votes can be set in the central data processing program.”
―Isn’t it a tough logical jump to connect all of this with purposeful manipulation? Don’t you think so?
“Before the general election, the NEC collected the following personal information: work background, academic background, tax records, criminal records, and medical records for 5 million people. It is possible that “ghost voting” was possible by using this.”
― “Ghost voting” means that the voter is counted as voted without actually voting. What kind of world are we living in now?
“When an elderly man went to vote, he was told, ‘Didn’t you already pre-vote?'” There have been quite a few of these cases reported. The pre-voting rate was 26.6 percent, the highest ever. How many voters voted in advance?”
Early voting ballots tied like a bunch of new bills. / Provided by lawyer Joo-hyun Park
―If you fall into doubt, then everything falls under question. The Coronavirus epidemic demanded a distributed vote and President Moon encouraged his supporters by participating himself in early voting, right?
“In the case of Shin Jung-dong in Bucheon, 18,210 people voted in advance. There was only one polling place. Pre-voting was held for two days, but the actual voting time was 24 hours. Calculations show that 12.6 people voted per minute. There were 12,921 people in Sangdong, Bucheon that voted at 9 people per minute. Is this realistically possible? Even if we carry out the election evidence preservation with a court order to investigate, they will not release the list of preliminary voters.”
―What brings you into this investigation?
“The analysis shows that the pre-voting rate in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon was 63:36, and the Democratic Party’s pre-voting rate was higher than any other party, without exception, in the 424 areas (dong units) in Seoul.”
―Statistically it looks strange, but votes in the Seoul metropolitan area are similar, so it can come out like that. It’s like denying reality, saying, “The statistics are weird. I can’t believe it?”
“It was 4:55 p.m. on April 16 when I checked the data of the pre-voting rate analysis of 63:36 in an Internet community. In that short period of time, not even a genius could download and aggregate all the data of the votes at each constituency, pre-voting station, and analyze the pre-voting numbers in and out of the jurisdictions.”
―What do you mean by that?
“It means the data was created beforehand. They just adjusted the data according to the number of votes. It is possible that the data was most likely leaked by insiders (people who were part of the fraud).”
―It’s not a place to talk about unproven claims. Haven’t you checked the data source of the analysis?
““I tracked down the IP address, it was Thailand. I’ve been a full-time professor before at the National Tax Service’s Training School for three years, and I’m well versed in statistics. I think a value was manipulated. I posted on the internet cafe saying, ‘If someone can prove that the early voting result was not a manipulation, I’ll give you 10 million won ($9,000 USD), but nobody has responded yet.”
― Analysts say the ruling party’s landslide victory in the pre-voting is the result of strategic voting. Some even argued that “voters are not a single parent group, but that the pre-voting and main-voting groups are completely separate groups?”
“The claim that the ruling party`s supporters gathered in large numbers on the day of the pre-voting is pure fiction. There is a data analysis comparing pre-voting rates and party voting rates in 1,537 districts across the country. The higher record of Democratic Party’s votes corresponds with a lower voter turnout of early voting, and the higher the record of the Unified Future Party’s votes, corresponds with a higher voter turnout of early voting. This means early voting was never strictly oriented to the ruling party.”
――Is this data analysis validated?
“It’s been validated recently. There is another thing that was not correct in the analysis of election results that we took for granted. We know that there were a lot of conservatives in their 60s or older in the main vote, but in fact, there was an overwhelming number of people in their 30s and 40s who are ruling party oriented. The results, however, the votes for the United Future Party were slightly more than the Democratic Party. As a result, the ruling party won 22%, even though people in their 50s and 60s came out in the early voting. It is difficult to explain under normal circumstances.”
―The ballot counting room is watched by NEC officers, counting clerks, and party observers. They manually check the 100-pack of votes that come through the ballot classifier and counter. The ballot count status is posted on the wall and shared with political parties and media in real time. They then report this to the senior NEC, by fax and computer networks. How can it be manipulated?
“They only look at the ballots that are grouped in packs of 100, but they do not count the number of votes one by one. In the ballot classifier, there is a video of a scene in which number 2 or some unmarked votes, the invalid votes, are passed to number 1. In the Buyeo electoral district, there were more votes for the ruling party according to the ballot classifier, but after the handwork, over 100 votes were overturned. At the Seongbuk counting hall in Seoul, the electronic counting machine recognized 1,810 votes as 1,680 votes.”
―Isn’t this rather, evidence that there is a system that can catch an error in the electronic counting machine?
“It’s not a site that observers can check meticulously. There must have been so much more that we didn’t catch. So much has gone unnoticed.”
He has blind faith in his suspicions as facts. Nevertheless, from a journalist’s point of view, these suspicions are well worth raising. It is not something to turn a blind eye to or to be subjected to ridicule or criticism. If there are widespread rumors of election irregularities, it is right to thoroughly investigate and validate them.
source : http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/05/24/2020052402318.html
