Seoul: An election worker was apprehended this week after allegedly casting an early vote for the June 3 presidential election on her husband's behalf, police said Friday. The woman was identified as a contract employee for Seoul's Gangnam district office, appointed by the National Election Commission to assist in checking voters' IDs during the two-day early voting period on Thursday and Friday, according to Suseo Police Station.

According to Yonhap News Agency, police detained the woman without a warrant on Thursday, approximately half an hour after receiving a report of someone voting twice at a polling station in Gangnam's Daechi 2-dong neighborhood. She is under suspicion of using her husband's ID to cast a ballot before voting with her ID several hours later.

The woman reportedly confessed to the charges but did not disclose her motive. Both the Gangnam district office and the National Election Commission (NEC) have relieved her of her duties. The NEC has filed a complaint against the woman with the police and requested an investigation into her husband's potential involvement.

The NEC stated, "A vote by proxy by an election worker who should strictly and fairly oversee the presidential election is a very serious election crime that brutally tramples on the people's trust in election administration." Despite the incident, the woman's ballots cannot be nullified as they have already been placed inside ballot boxes, and the vote count will proceed as usual.