Polling places for confirmed cases are sluggish due to low turnout… The impact of the slowing spread

During the voting time, 1-3 people visited the polling place without a single person.

On the 1st, the day of the 8th National Simultaneous Local Election and the National Assembly by-election, the polling places for those infected with the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were generally quiet.

The turnout was lower than in the last local election, and unlike the presidential election, when hundreds of thousands of people were confirmed a day, it seems to reflect the situation in which the spread of COVID-19 has slowed.

Only two people visited the polling place at Guwol Yeo Middle School, Namdong-gu, Incheon, from 6:30 pm on the day when the voting for confirmed cases started.

Kim (29), who visited the polling place, said, “I was infected three days ago and is self-isolating.

At the same time, only two people went to the polling place at the Pharma Middle School in Jung-gu, Ulsan and the polling place in Gyo 1-dong, Gangneung, Gangwon-do.

At a polling station in Haeundae-gu, Busan, which has a relatively large population, three people cast one precious vote.

There were also polling places where not a single confirmed person stopped by.

At the 4 polling stations in Jeonpo 1-dong, Jin-gu, Busan, and some polling stations in Yeongdo-gu, only election clerks stayed in their seats, as were the polling stations in Gyesu Elementary School in Chipyeong-dong, Seo-gu, Gwangju, and the Ulsan Student Education and Culture Center.

At the third and fourth polling stations in Bisan 1-dong, Seo-gu, Daegu, voting was also completed for an hour without anyone coming.

An election clerk who met at a polling station in North Chungcheong Province said, “During the general election, there were voters waiting before the start of voting for confirmed cases, but so far, no one has come.” “It seems to be because of the low turnout.”

An election clerk at a polling station in Gwangju also said, “It is said that Gwangju recorded the lowest turnout in the nation in this election, but it seems to have been reflected in the voting for confirmed cases.

Unlike the presidential election, there were no major incidents, accidents, or disturbances.

Quarantine was also found to have been successful thanks to the fact that the election clerks wore protective gear even in hot weather and thoroughly followed the quarantine rules.

The Election Commission improved the use of temporary voting booths by confirmed patients at the time of early voting in the last presidential election, and has taken measures to ensure that all polling stations are used in this local election.

Accordingly, the so-called ‘colander voting’ controversy, which occurred due to poor management of the ballot boxes of confirmed cases during the presidential election, did not appear in this local election.

(Reporters Ryu Su-hyeon, Kim Dong-min, Yang Young-seok, Park Young-seo, Kim Geun-ju, Son Hyeon-gyu, Cheon Gyeong-hwan, Park Se-jin, Jeong Hoe-seong, Kyeun-ho, Baek Na-yong, Jeong Gyeong-jae)

/yunhap news