The common thread to election fraud occurring in Iraq, the Congo, and countless other countries have been South Korea’s system equipment.
The National Election Commission, which is receiving allegations of fraudulent election in the 4.15 general election, set up an organization called A-WEB (Secretary-General Choi Jong-hyeon), and it is revealed that A-WEB has been directly or indirectly affecting the fraudulent elections around the world since many years ago.
Relationship between the National Election Commission and A-WEB
Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) is an international private organization founded in 2013 by the National Election Commission of Korea.
In particular, the NEC of the Republic of Korea supports the entire budget of the project, and the chairperson of the NEC is in charge of the A-WEB’s overseas cooperation project in accordance with the ‘Association of World Election Bodies Support Act’.
The organization was established as a pretext for promoting election-related information, knowledge, and experience exchanges around the world and supporting elections in developing countries.
The problem is that A-WEB, founded by the National Election Commission, has been suspected of supporting election fraud systems in countries around the world after it was found to be supporting the election management system in countries suffering from fraudulent elections.
“At the heart of each country’s election fraud scandal, there was the South Korean electronic voting system (servers or electronic ballot counting machines).”
A-WEB, an international election-related organization founded on the initiative of the National Election Commission of the Republic of Korea, has been peculiarly in charge of overseas propagation of the Korean election system, has built a central server for electronic voting for free in Romania, Dominica, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), and Kyrgyzstan using the ODA (Official Development Assistance) funds, and has arranged the export of such items like the electronic ballot counting machines.
In this process, A-WEB’s first secretary-general, Kim Yong-hi, will be investigated by the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office on suspicion of receiving a bundle of cash from Miru Systems that supplied equipment to the information and communication technology business of the NEC around the world while in office.
There was also a case that the National Election Commission conducted an audit on A-WEB and cut the budget significantly.
In Iraq, the Congo, El Salvador, Bolivia, South Africa, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan, there was a controversy that “the Korean electronic voting system became a tool for election fraud” among citizens who questioned the results of vote counting.
The problem is that most of the countries that A-WEB supplied central servers and electronic ballot counters to in order to spread the electronic voting system of the Republic of Korea have suffered bloody riots along with fraudulent elections.
2017 Iraqi Election Fraud
Suspicions have been raised that Miru Systems, a Korean electronic ballot counter manufacturer, signed a contract with the Iraqi Election Commission in April 2017 and the electronic ballot counter that was exclusively supplied by them was used for rigging the election.
It is a common belief that A-WEB, which is related to the National Election Commission, has supported the Korean company Miru Systems, which has only 4-5 years of business, to become an Iraqi election equipment supplier.
In the end, there was a bloody uprising in Iraq, and a recount led to an unprecedented event in which 25% of the elected candidates were turned over.
In the end, the general election held in May 2018 raised questions about the reliability of the Korean electronic voting and counting system which was introduced for the first time, and it was criticized for the unfair election procedure due to the poor voter registration and identification check processes.
This is in line with the suspicion of the electronic counting machine raised in the 4.15 general election, 2020 in the Republic of Korea.
The Congo’s Rigged Election in 2018
A-WEB, which was established in 2013 under the leadership of the National Election Commission (NEC) of the Republic of Korea, was suspected of promoting the export of Korean-made TVS (touch screen voting system) to the NEC in the DR Congo in 2017 in the form of a private contract and giving the whole order amount to the Korean electronic voting machine manufacturer, Miru Systems.
SkyeDaily, a South Korean media, has already cited Congo Research Group in April 2018 and reported that the contract size with the South Korean Miru system supported by A-WEB reached about 107,000 units, $160 million (KRW170 billion), and they were placed in about 84,000 polling stations for the DR Congo presidential election.
At the time, western countries, including the United States, expressed their concern that the ‘current President Joseph Kabila is likely to use the South Korean electronic voting machine for election rigging’.
In the end, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s presidential election in December 2018 sparked controversy over the use of electronic voting machines exported by Korean companies in election rigging, leading to a bloody uprising against the election fraud.
It caused a big controversy back then, to the point that the opposition leader from the Congo visited the Republic of Korea to protest, and the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea set up a fact-finding team, etc.
Kim Yong-hi, who was the secretary-general of A-WEB at the time, was reportedly cleared of the charges after being investigated by the prosecution, but it is believed to be true that the Korean electronic voting machine was used for the fraudulent election in the Congo.
Kyrgyzstan’s Rigged Election in 2020
Kyrgyzstan, where A-WEB supported central servers, etc., has also recently fallen into controversy over fraudulent elections.
The Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan, a small Central Asian country where large-scale protests of the opposition party against the general election took place, invalidated the election results on the 6th (local time).
Kyrgyzstan is also one of the countries where A-WEB has worked hard in.
Kyrgyzstan must pass the lower limit of 7% to enter the parliament among the 16 political parties running for the general election.
In elections conducted on a proportional representation system for each party, the four political parties that have passed the lower limit are allocated seats according to the percentage of votes, and three out of four parties that have passed this lower limit are close to President Soronbai Zhenbekov.
Among them, the Birimdik Party is the party where President Zenbekov’s brother Asulbek Zenbekov belongs to, and Mekenim Kyrgyzstan Party is backed by the former deputy commissioner of the Customs Service, Rayimbek Matraimov, who is facing numerous corruption allegations and is said to have funded President Zenbekov during the 2017 presidential elections.
This is in the same way as Korea’s proportional representation voting system, and we are also currently on the lawsuit for alleged rigging in the proportional representation vote both inside and outside the jurisdiction in the 4.15 general election.
In fact, in certain regions, an abnormal phenomenon was found in which not a single vote was cast for the Christian Liberty Unification Party in the proportional representation vote.
In the 2018 prosecution investigation
It is said that A-WEB has arranged for a Korean electronic counting machine company to exclusively supply electronic voting and counting terminals to the countries where rigged elections have occurred.
(Miru Systems also won a consulting order in September 2020 for the National Election Commission’s electronic counting machine inspection project.)
In particular, Kim Yong-hi, secretary-general of A-WEB, was investigated by the prosecution as bribery and corruption issues emerged with other counterpart countries in 2018.
The Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office eventually cleared Secretary-General Kim Yong-hi of charges, but it is widely believed that suspicions that A-WEB, founded by the National Election Commission, is directly and indirectly linked to fraudulent elections around the world have not yet been resolved.
In addition, there is a rumor that A-WEB and the National Election Commission have been separated in the wake of this incident, but industry insiders say that high-ranking posts who have retired from the National Election Commission often move to A-WEB.
South Korea’s allegations of fraudulent election in 2020
The problem is that the voting system of the National Election Commission, which has been used for rigging elections in various countries around the world, is being used in the Korean elections as it is.
Some argue, “It makes no sense to use the very electronic counting machines and the products of the election system manufacturers that have been involved in fraudulent elections around the world which led to riots. Those results have been reversed through numerous recounts.”
“It’s been six months since allegations of fraudulent election were raised, and the court is passive in adopting evidence and is not willing to recount.”
“Despite the fraudulent election lawsuit being processed, the NEC is pushing ahead with actions that will raise suspicions such as relocating the servers which are core evidence and checking the voting system, which is the key evidence in the lawsuit.
This naturally requires the international investigation team to intervene.” It is gaining momentum.
The National Election Commission of the Republic of Korea is suspected of manipulating elections using electronic counting machines (ballot sorter) and servers after releasing statistically abnormal results that cannot be found as common sense in the 4.15 general election.
The National Election Commission exclusively tendered for the suppliers of electronic counting machines suspected of being used in rigged elections around the world for the 4.15 general election in 2020.
The specifications and structure of the two companies are known to be almost identical.
Miru Systems, which caused a stir, also won a consulting order for the National Election Commission’s electronic counting machine inspection project in September 2020.
Will the judiciary of the Republic of Korea be able to make a fair judgment in the fraudulent election lawsuit?
In the allegations of the fraudulent election on April 15th general election in 2020, the court excluded the server and ballot sorter (electronic counting system) used for the election from the list of preservation of evidence until the end.
Despite the fact that servers, electronic counting machines (ballot sorters), and integrated electoral registers were adopted as key evidence in the cases of fraudulent elections in countries around the world, including the fact that the Korean court excluded such equipment from the preservation of evidence in Korea’s fraudulent election litigation are hard to comprehend.
According to experts, it is known that the international election investigation team first look into basic items such as servers, electronic counting machines, and electoral registers through forensics, and if any evidence is damaged or any trace of evidence destruction is found, they are known to judge them as fraudulent.
In particular, the integrated electoral register is a data that can determine whether the lists of voters and actual voters are the same, and the core task is to check each and every log-in record of the server by comparing it.
The National Election Commission directly or indirectly involved in the fraudulent elections of each country…who is behind it?
There are also suspicions that the National Election Commission reigns over the regime and is superfluous (屋上屋).
In order to become a member of the National Assembly, they say, regardless of being conservative or progressive, they have no choice but to see the face of the National Election Commission.
This is because the election commission determines whether a candidate is eligible or not around the time of the election.
It is also the subject of judging the Public Officials Election Act.
There are also allegations such as “On the pretext of supporting the election system of the world’s underdeveloped countries, the Korean National Election Commission ended up supporting the election fraud,” and “As the U.S. and the Western world also expressed their concern, there must be something behind the export of Korea’s election system.”
Some argue that a thorough investigation should be done: the relationship between the National Election Commission and A-WEB, whether they wasted the national budget on the pretext of Official Development Assistance, whether the A-WEB and the National Election Commission received any foreign influence other than the Republic of Korea.
This is because the cases of overseas election fraud and the alleged cases of election fraud in the 4.15 general election in 2020 are so consistent, and even the Korean election system is commonly used.
On the other hand, it is an open fact that the K-VOTING system developed and distributed by the National Election Commission is used for the elections of each party’s representatives and various voting, so regardless of ruling or opposition parties, they should see the face of the NEC.
In particular, there have been allegations of irregularities related to the voting system in the past, including the Democratic Party of Korea as well as the Liberty Korea Party’s process of electing candidates for National Assembly members, but the atmosphere is that they are trying to cover up so that it is not exposed to the public.
While former member of the National Assembly, Min Kyung-wook, is working hard to form an international investigation team in Washington, the United States, as he made aware to the world of the alleged election fraud in the April 15 Korean general election, voices are gaining momentum that international investigation teams of the international organizations such as the U.N. need to intervene rather than rely on the judiciary of the Republic of Korea to clarify the truth behind the alleged election fraud in the April 15 general election.
Source: http://www.fntoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=234808
