How ballot shortages disrupt elections in other countries

Seoul’s ballot shortage was a rare Election Day failure, but not an unheard-of one.

Similar incidents have disrupted voting in the US, Australia and the UK, usually after election authorities underestimated turnout or failed to supply enough ballots to specific polling stations.

In the US, during Mississippi’s 2023 gubernatorial election, Hinds County, the state’s most populous county, ran out of ballots after a tight race between then-incumbent Republican Gov.

Tate Reeves and Democratic challen ...