Overview
- A joint prosecution-police team searched the National Election Commission headquarters and several local election offices during a coordinated operation that investigators said aimed to secure evidence about the June 3 ballot shortages.
- Searches recovered documents on ballot printing plans, budgets and meeting minutes that investigators are now analyzing to trace who decided how many ballots to print and how spare ballots were handled.
- The justice ministry approved travel restrictions on former NEC chair Roh Tae-ak after raids extended into a second day of server and file searches, and investigators are preserving both physical and digital records for the probe.
- Officials found that a storage box ordered preserved as evidence was discarded and that a separate data-entry error omitted 1,104 votes from an official tally, issues that prosecutors and the National Assembly say they will investigate.
- Lawmakers from both parties have opened formal steps for a parliamentary probe, protesters continue to demand a rerun, and scrutiny has focused on the NEC’s December 2025 cut in its ballot-printing guideline from 60% to 50% as a possible cause of the shortages.