Hwang Kyo-ahn, who served as South Korea’s acting president from Dec. 2016 to May 2017 after President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment, alleged on April 8 that election officials were manipulating advance voting in the April 10 general election. He pointed to a video recording from 3 a.m. on April 7 showing election officials in Seoul’s Eunpyeong district appearing to handle a large volume of external ballots and changes to voting procedures as supposed evidence of fraud.

South Korea’s National Election Commission dismissed the allegations as unfounded later on April 7, stating the video depicts a normal process where ballots are received by mail and inserted into ballot boxes with oversight from party-nominated officials. The commission emphasized that the courts have rejected previous election lawsuits alleging fraud and warned against inciting public distrust through unsubstantiated claims.