[현장] The re-election voting is in full swing… Will the turnout in Seoul exceed 50%?

The main voting for the re-election of 21 local workers, including the mayor of Seoul and the mayor of Busan, has begun. Please check the designated polling place carefully and bring a mask and ID card. Connect to the polling place.

Reporter Kim Sang-min, please tell us the current voting progress.

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Yes, I am at the polling place in the Mok-dong Youth Center.

About 4 hours have passed since voting started.

Citizens who wanted to vote before going to work, and parents who stopped by after school attended this polling place, once a long line was lined up, but now in a relatively busy atmosphere, there are few citizens visiting the polling place.

This re-election is also being held amid corona like last year’s general election.

If there is no abnormality after taking the body temperature here, you will receive such hand sanitization and a plastic glove.

Put on these plastic gloves, line up at a certain distance, and go inside the polling place to take the candidates you want.

As of 10 o’clock, the turnout is 9.3%.

The nationwide pre-voting rate, which took place over the past two days, was 20.54%, the highest among all-time re-elections. In particular, the pre-voting rate in Seoul rose by 3 percentage points from the local elections three years ago, showing high interest in this election for the mayor of Seoul.

There is also a careful observation that the final turnout may exceed 50% if today’s main vote is added, and today is a weekday, not a holiday, so the key is how many citizens visit.

In particular, today, unlike pre-voting, you have to go to the designated polling place and it is held until 8 pm.

Please check the location of the polling place on the notice sent home or on the website of the National Election Commission.