Seoul: An election worker was apprehended this week after allegedly casting an early vote for the June 3 presidential election on her husband's behalf, police said Friday. The woman was identified as a contract employee for Seoul's Gangnam district office who was appointed by the National Election Commission to help check voters' IDs during the two-day early voting Thursday and Friday, according to Suseo Police Station.
According to Yonhap News Agency, police detained the woman without a warrant Thursday, about half an hour after they received a call that someone had voted twice at a polling station in Gangnam's Daechi 2-dong neighborhood. She is being questioned on suspicion of casting a ballot using her husband's ID before trying to cast her own ballot several hours later.
Both the Gangnam district office and the NEC said they have relieved her of her duties.