Voting and decision of its results
Voting in the DPRK is held at sub-constituencies (constituencies) for the election of deputies to the people’s assemblies at all levels.
A member of a sub-constituency (constituency) election committee, together with a voting witness, checks the conditions of a polling station and ballot box and seals the box before starting the voting.
A voter casts his/her ballot at his/her registered constituency. In a special case, he/she can demand a certificate of suffrage and go to other constituency for balloting.
First, a voter presents his/her citizenship card or a substitute for his/her identity to a member of the election committee. The latter compares it with a voters’ list and passes a ballot to the former. Then, the voter casts his/her ballot in secrecy.
No one is allowed to enter or peep at the polling station at the moment of voting.
For a voter in bed by such reasons as serious diseases, senility and physical troubles, a member of the election committee visits his/her house with a ballot and a sealed mobile box to help his/her voting. In case the voter is in a position not to personally cast his/her ballot into the box, he/she can ask other person to vote for his/her place.
Members of the election committee, in the presence of voting witnesses, inspect the box whether it is sealed before opening it to compare the number of ballots in it with the number of presented ballots. If the former is less or the same with the latter, the election is declared effective and, if the former exceeds the former, it is declared invalid. A ballot with obscure marks for approval or not and with different sizes and forms shall not be counted.
The constituency election committee receives a report on the voting results from its sub-constituency election committee and analyzes them by each candidate for deputy and declares a candidate supported by more than half the number of voters to be an elected person.
After deciding the elected, it prepares a report on the results and send them to its senior election committee.
The central election committee announces the elected deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly, the relevant provincial (municipal) election committees the elected deputies to provincial (municipal) people’s assemblies, and the relevant city (district) and county election committees the elected deputies to city (district) and county people’s assemblies.
The central election committee (the central election guidance committee) makes public the overall report on the results of election of deputies to the people’s assemblies at all levels.
On March 13, Juche 108 (2019), the central election committee deliberated the report on the results presented by all the constituency election committees across the country for the election of deputies to the 14th SPA and made public the list of 687 elected deputies.
Ho Yong Chol
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