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Article 215
 

(Special Cases on Ballot-Counting Witnesses)


(1) In simultaneous elections, the political party that has recommended a candidate shall select and report eight ballot-counting witnesses, and the independent candidate shall select and report two, notwithstanding the number of persons to be selected and reported under Article 181 (2): Provided, That the Gu/Si/Gun election commission, upon counting the abode ballots, shipboard ballots, and advance ballots shall permit four persons of those selected and reported by the political party and one person of those selected and reported by the independent candidate to witness such ballot counting.


<Amended by Act No. 4947, Apr. 1, 1995; Act No. 4949, May 10, 1995; Act No. 6265, Feb. 16, 2000; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005; Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>


(2) In the simultaneous elections, notwithstanding the provision of Article 182 (2), the admission tickets shall first be allocated equally among the political parties, and then allocated equally among the independent candidates, but each candidate shall be allocated at least one ticket.


<Amended by Act No. 4949, May 10, 1995; Act No. 6265, Feb. 16, 2000; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005>