North Koreans go to polls in ‘Rubber-Stamp’ election

There is one candidate on each ballot for vote held every five years for Supreme People’s Assembly
North Koreans go to polls in ‘Rubber-Stamp’ election

North Koreans have voted in an election in which there can be only one winner.

Leader Kim Jong-un's Workers' party has an iron grip on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea but every five years it holds an election for the rubber-stamp legislature, known as the Supreme People's Assembly.

There is only one approved name on each ballot paper. Voters have the opportunity to cross it out before casting their ballot, but in practice that is unknown.

Pyongyang is going to make unique elections on Sunday, forming a new definition of North Korean democracy, whose outcome is already fixed. Leader Kim Jong-His ruling Workers Party is well aware of the stronghold of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Elections of the Supreme People's Assembly is held here every 5 years for the show, whose results are already known to all.

Sunday's voting took place in something of a carnival atmosphere in Pyongyang, with children in red neckerchiefs parading in the streets to encourage voters to attend. Bands played at polling stations, where voters lined up in numerical order according to voter lists displayed for days beforehand.

Continuing this, voting here is going on Sunday. North Korea is also making this election with the slogan of unity. There will be only one approved name on each ballot during voting. Voters can cut the name before casting vote, but this does not happen in such a reality.

99.97 percent of the vote was cast last year and only those people who did not vote were out of the country. Hundred percent of the votes were in favor of nominated candidates.

The North is divided into constituencies for the vote. There were 686 at the last election in 2014 when Kim stood in Mount Paektu, a dormant volcano on the border with China revered as the spiritual birthplace of the Korean people. He received a 100% turnout and 100% of the vote.

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