150 minutes of voting time, does that make sense?
150 minutes of voting time, does that make sense?
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There is a possibility that the election for the president of the Korea Sports Council, which has been turned into a dog race due to the candidates' low-level negative attacks and poor alliance, will be postponed in a surprise manner like the election for the president of the Korea Football Association.
Some electors in the election for the president of the Korea Sports Council filed a petition for a provisional injunction to suspend the election, saying that their right to vote was seriously violated. Eleven representatives of the Korea Sports Council, including Lee Ho-jin, chairman of the Korea Ice Hockey Association, filed an injunction requesting the suspension of the election for the president of the Korea Sports Council to the Seoul Eastern District Court on the 7th. The election will be held for 2,244 delegates at the Olympic Hall in Songpa-gu, Seoul, on the 14th. Delegates who submitted an application for provisional injunction took issue with the method of voting for only 150 minutes after announcing the candidate's political opinion at 1 p.m. on the day of the election.
This election is being conducted as a commissioned election by the National Election Commission. Since the Central Election Commission and the Election Management Committee organized by the Korean Sports Commission work together, all decisions related to the election are made with the two sides agreeing with each other. The same is true of the decision to set the voting time to 150 minutes. This election will have 10 voter confirmation desks. There are 14 voting booths. Physically, if 2,244 people gather at almost the same time, voting can be completed within 2 hours and 30 minutes.
However, the problem is that it is not easy to get to the polling place in Seoul on time because the electors are scattered across the country. If you want to go from the provinces to Seoul by car or public transportation, you have to move early in the morning. "Electors in the provinces are not aware of voting hours," Chairman Lee Ho-jin said through Yonhap News. "If only the electors in the metropolitan area participate, fairness will be greatly damaged."
The election watchdog and the election management committee sent election-related notices to the electors late last month. They include the date and time of the election. However, mobile phone information messages sent to the electors until last Thursday showed only the date of the election, but the time was not announced. The announcement will be made from 1 p.m. and the announcement will take place for 150 minutes after the announcement is made only in the "Voting Participation Method Corner" posted on the presidential election website, not on the KOC's website. 메이저놀이터
"These days, most people tend to focus on text messages on mobile phones," an elector said. "Notifying people only on mails or websites will inevitably limit information acquisition." The election management committee reportedly set a policy to announce the voting time to electors through text messages on mobile phones from Tuesday.
In 2016, there were 1,405 electors in the election for the chairman of the sports council and the voting time was 90 minutes. In the 2021 election, online voting was introduced due to COVID-19, and 1974 out of 2170 (90.97% turnout) voted.
The election for the president of the Korea Football Association, which was postponed on the 7th, was originally scheduled to be held from 11:10 a.m. to 3 p.m. after the announcement of the three candidates' political views from 10:30 a.m. on the 8th. Even though there were 173 delegates to the election for the president of the Korea Football Association, the voting time was allocated for nearly four hours. The voting time for the election for the Korea Judo President, which was held through online voting on the 8th, was a total of four hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Chairman Lee Ho-jin said, "It is questionable why candidates running for the election do not actively raise questions about the election method," adding, "Even if the application for provisional injunction is not cited, we plan to proceed with a lawsuit to invalidate the main election." Chun Woo and Lee Jung-ho, a lawyer at the law firm who represented the application for provisional injunction, said, "We should guarantee voting time for at least a day. If the idea is to hold elections only for people who can come to the site on weekdays and in Seoul, it is a big problem."