NEC special counsel team to visit site of forensic examination of election management system tomorrow

[Financial News] The special counsel team investigating the ballot shortage during the June 3 local elections and alleged misconduct at the NEC is set to verify the NEC’s election management system.
According to the special counsel team on the 12th, three digital forensics expert advisers appointed by the NEC special counsel will visit the NEC in person at around 10:30 a.m. on the 13th to check the management of the NEC’s election management system and the progress of the forensic investigation, and provide expert technical advice to the special counsel.
The three advisers are Professor Lee Sang-jin of Korea University’s Graduate School of Information Security; Professor Won Yu-jip of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; and Professor Lee Byung-young of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University.
The special counsel plans to actively take into account in its investigation the opinions and advice the advisers offer during their on-site review.
Meanwhile, forensic investigators with the NEC special counsel team are stationed at the NEC and are conducting forensic verification of the election management system and other systems. The special counsel said it plans to continue the related verification thoroughly for at least several weeks.
 
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