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Now, let's go to the National Election Commission, which keeps track of the voter turnout.
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Our Yoo Li-an is there. Li-an, do we have the final numbers yet?
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Chery, Sean,... the election committee has confirmed that the final voter turnout is
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56-point-8 percent. This is the highest turnout in 16 years.
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It's also about two percentage points higher than the 54-point-5 percent recorded at the
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last local election in 2010,.. making it the second highest voter turnout in all the five
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past local elections. But still, it falls short of the 60-percent
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expected by the election committee,... since a large group took part in the two-day early
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voting period late last week. About 11-point-5 percent of all eligible voters
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cast early ballots. Also, some pundits had predicted the Sewol-ho
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ferry disaster would pull up voter participation,... but given the lower than expected voter turnout,..
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it seems the disaster has only worked to turn the heads of voters away from politics.
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The National Election Commission expects that we will have a pretty good sense of who has
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won by 11 p.m. tonight, Korea time, but as there are many races that are neck-and-neck
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this year,.. they expect the final results to come in at three to four hours past midnight.
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Now the NEC has made extra efforts to increase election transparency,... and allowed anyone
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interested in seeing the ballot count process to watch it live, on its homepage and major
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portal sites including Naver and Youtube. I'm Yoo Li-an reporting live from the National
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Election Commission.
