NEC Starts Printing Ballot Papers for May 9 Presidential Election

The National Election Commission (NEC) has started printing ballot for the May ninth presidential election.

The ballot papers will be printed by firms designated NEC local branches and will be ten centimeters wide and 28-point-five centimeters long, which is the longest ballot for the country's presidential elections.

The names of 15 candidates will be printed on the ballots, although two candidates – Nam Jae-joon of the Unification Korea Party and Kim Jeong-sun of the Future Korean Peninsula Union – dropped out of the presidential race.

In order to rectify this, the NEC will state “resigned” in the boxes for the two candidates to ensure voters will not mark in their boxes.