A-WEB : The controversial organization EP. 3
How does China rig elections in other countries?
By using the Korean Central Election Commission and its affiliate, A-WEB.
A-WEB, a division of the Korean Central Election Commission
The Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) is an international private organization founded in 2013 at the initiative of the Korean National Election Commission.
In particular, the entire budget of the organization is funded by the Korean National Election Commission, and the Chairman of the Election Commission oversees all overseas cooperation projects of A-WEB in accordance with the Act on Supporting the World Council of Election Agencies. The organization was established to promote the exchange of information, knowledge, and experience on elections around the world and to support elections in developing countries.
In every country where A-WEB has provided support or exported election management systems, the organization has been plagued by fraudulent elections.
“Korean e-voting systems (servers or electronic voting machines) were at the center of the fraudulent elections in each country”
A-WEB, an international election-related organization created at the initiative of the Korean National Election Commission, has been organizing the overseas dissemination of Korea’s election system, using ODA (Official Development Assistance) funds to build central servers for e-voting in Fiji, Argentina, El Salvador, Congo, Ecuador, Romania, Dominica, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Kyrgyzstan for free, and to arrange the export of electronic voting machines.
In the process, A-WEB’s first Secretary General Kim Yong-hee was investigated by prosecutors for allegedly receiving a large amount of cash from Miru Systems, which supplied equipment to the information and communication technology business of election commissions around the world during his tenure.
The National Election Commission also conducted an audit of A-WEB, which resulted in a drastic cut in its budget.
Iraq, Congo, El Salvador, Bolivia, South Africa, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan are among the countries where A-WEB has provided centralized servers and electronic voting machines for the deployment of e-voting systems.
In most of these countries, bloody riots occurred along with fraudulent elections. Therefore, there was a controversy that “Korean electronic voting machines are problematic” in countries where fraudulent elections occurred.
In other words, there is a reasonable suspicion that the NEC has been supporting fraudulent election systems in countries around the world, mainly in developing countries.
