Police seek arrest warrant for election worker accused of casting vote on husband's behalf
Polling booths are seen at a polling center in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, Tuesday, in this photo provided by the city's Buk district office. Yonhap
Police on Saturday filed for a formal arrest warrant for an election worker who allegedly cast an early vote for the June 3 presidential election on her husband's behalf, officials said.
Police detained the suspect without a warrant Thursday, shortly after they received a call that someone had voted twice at a polling station in Gangnam's Daechi 2-dong neighborhood.
The Seoul Suseo Police Station applied for the warrant on charges of deceptive voting, seeking to extend her detention.
The woman, a contract employee at Seoul's Gangnam district health office who was appointed as an election worker by the election watchdog, was found to have been tasked with issuing ballots to voters.