2 election officials to be grilled over ballot shortage

Two officials of the election authority in Songpa-gu, southern Seoul, are under investigation for not taking necessary measures in the ballot shortage incident during the June 3 local elections, according to a joint investigative team of police and prosecutors on Tuesday.

The officials are to be summoned for questioning later in the day on abandonment of duties, as investigators believe they had reason to anticipate the shortage of voting papers and did nothing to prevent it.

They are also suspe ...