(Ensuring Secrecy of Voting)

(1) The secrecy of voting shall be ensured.

(2) No elector is obligated to disclose the name of the candidate for whom he/she has voted or the name of the political party to any one or in any case, and no one may ask it or demand an elector to state it until the voting hours are closed on the election day: Provided, That where a TV or radio broadcasting station or daily newspaper under items (a) and (b) of subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Act on the Promotion of Newspapers, etc. asks questions, by means of not infringing on the secrecy of voting, in order to forecast the result of the election, at a distance of 50 meters from the polling station, this shall not apply, and in such cases, the details and result thereof may not be published until the last minute of the voting hours.

<Amended by Act No. 5127, Dec. 30, 1995; Act No. 6265, Feb. 16, 2000; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005; Act No. 9974, Jan. 25, 2010; Act No. 11374, Feb. 29, 2012> 

(3) An elector shall not make the ballot paper on which he/she has recorded his/her vote open to the public, and any disclosed ballot paper shall become nullified.