Seoul, May 31
South Korean Police on Saturday filed for a formal arrest warrant for an election worker who allegedly cast an early vote for the June 3 presidential election on her husband's behalf, officials said.
Police detained the suspect without a warrant on Thursday, shortly after they received a call that someone had voted twice at a polling station in Gangnam's Daechi 2-dong neighbourhood.
The Seoul Suseo Police Station applied for the warrant on charges of deceptive voting, seeking to extend her detention, news agency reported.
The woman, a contract employee for Seoul's Gangnam district health office who was appointed as an election worker by the election watchdog, was found to have been tasked with issuing ballots for voters.
Earlier on May 30, an election worker in South Korea was apprehended after allegedly casting an early vote for the June 3 presidential election on her husband's behalf.
She was questioned on suspicion of casting a ballot using her husband's ID before casting her own ballot several hours later.