2014 Local elections: Live from National Election Commission

Описание: Now, let's go to the National Election Commission, which keeps track of the voter turnout.
Our Yoo Li-an is there.
Li-an, do we have the final numbers yet?

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