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Why There Weren't Enough Ballots This Election

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ยท15 hours ago

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[Breaking News] Reports of insufficient ballots in Songpa-gu flooding in... Election Commission says "voter turnout is high"

The voter turnout is way too high so

Central Election Management Committee

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Your fault for showing up more than we expected

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Happened at 14 locations including Songpa-gu lol

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11 comments

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Like c'mon, you gotta prepare MORE than the expected turnout rate. You should stock at least 5% extra buffers, right? lol

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The last election already had so many controversies with the election commission, why isn't anything improving? Why are they just making more mess?

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These lazy bastards spend all their time sucking up and taking breaks, so they have zero motivation to fix anything lol

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The election commission chair needs to come out and give a public apology you ass

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Oh, we're off-duty so employees are being brought in anyway? Don't touch the ballots then lol

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as someone from a country with 50M people and we manage fine, this is wild to watch from the outside

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Technically speaking, isn't this actually a pretty major issue?

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wait this is actually insane, how does a developed country run out of ballots in 2024??

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okay but why is nobody talking about how this directly impacted voter turnout?? this is huge

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Is the problem that you people voted too much?

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14 locations??? I thought it was just 1 place, that's insane??

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my conspiracy theorist uncle was RIGHT for once and i hate it

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This is some real incompetence

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not me finding out about this on here before any news outlet covered it properly ๐Ÿ’€

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Yeonsu-gu also ran out of ballots

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If voting rights aren't protected, what's the point of democracy? The election commission seriously needs to get called out

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honestly this feels like a logistical failure that could've been prevented with like... basic planning

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In a free democratic country like South Korea, this is absolutely legit not something you dismiss as minor. Is Korea some third-world country now??

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Should've cut costs properly somewhere else, not on ballot paper...

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lmaooo this explains SO much about what happened at my polling place, thought i was going crazy ๐Ÿ˜ญ