Tak Hyun-min: "They Will Accept It Over Time" Criticism of Min Kyung-wook's 'Fraudulent Voting' Allegations

"The Early Voting Manipulation Allegation Is an Extreme Claim"

Tak Hyun-min, Advisory Committee Member for Blue House Event Planning / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Lim Juhyung] Tak Hyunmin, an advisory committee member for event planning at the Blue House, stated that regarding Min Kyungwook, a member of the United Future Party who raised allegations of early voting manipulation in the 21st general election, "People will come to accept it as time passes."

Tak appeared on CBS's 'Kim Hyunjung's News Show' on the morning of the 15th and said, "It's a familiar scene we've seen before," adding, "It took too long for them to admit that they lost the election even though they were not candidates."

He continued, "Even though there was no suspicion about the (vote) counting, it took a considerable amount of time to emotionally accept 'We lost' and 'The values I believed in have collapsed,'" and pointed out, "This is the result of being excessively immersed in politics."

Regarding the early voting manipulation allegations raised by Representative Min, he described them as "extreme of the extreme of the extreme claims," and said, "It's better to just lightly ignore them. (Ignoring them) is also good for those people who will be embarrassed later."

On the afternoon of the 11th, at the National Assembly Members' Office Building in Yeouido, Seoul, during the rally for uncovering the truth behind the April 15 general election suspicions and restoring national sovereignty, Min Kyung-wook, a member of the United Future Party, claimed that a large number of proportional representation ballots were found unmarked and without the election supervisor's seal. / Photo by Yonhap News

Earlier, on the 11th, Representative Min claimed to have obtained a large batch of early voting ballots for this general election and asserted it as evidence of fraudulent counting.

At the 'April 15 General Election Suspicion Fact-Finding and National Sovereignty Restoration Rally' held in the main conference room of the National Assembly Members' Office Building that day, he revealed the ballots and said, "Early voting ballots are printed each time a voter arrives, so ballots do not come out in bulk," and added, "The fact that I secured these ballots itself is evidence of manipulation."

In response, the Election Commission stated on the 12th, the day after Representative Min revealed the ballots, "The ballots are proportional representation election ballots stamped by the Guri City Election Commission official," and "Upon verification, six ballots were missing from the remaining ballots of the 2nd voting district in Sutak 2-dong, Guri City, and the serial numbers of the missing ballots match those of the ballots presented on site."

They further explained, "The election bag containing the remaining ballots and other election-related documents was temporarily stored in the fitness room inside the Guri City Gymnasium, the counting center," and added, "It is presumed that an unidentified person stole some of the remaining ballots."

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