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South Korea's Ballot Shortage Is A Democratic Shame, Not A Partisan Argument

South Korea's June 3 local elections exposed a basic administrative failure: ballot papers ran short at 50 polling stations and voting was temporarily suspended at 22. University student bodies and youth protesters have framed the incident as a voting-rights issue, while much of politics and media remains trapped in partisan interpretation. The deeper test is whether South Korea can investigate the National Election Commission, political silence and media framing without reducing the issue to ideology or conspiracy.