If official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system, at which level results are entered into an electronic tabulation system?

South Korea, [Public Official Election Act], Act No. 4739, March 16, 1994 (last amended Act No. 14839, July 26, 2017), accessed 30 September 2018

Article 170 (Sending Ballot Boxes, etc.)

(1) Any official in charge of voting management shall send the ballot box, keys thereof, voting record, and remaining ballot papers to the competent Gu/Si/Gun election commission, without delay after voting is closed.

Article 178 (Proceeding of Ballot Counting)

(1) The ballot counting and the calculation of votes shall proceed under classifications by voting district.

(2) In order to make it easier to count ballot papers, a Gu/Si/Gun election commission may sort ballot papers into valid votes and invalid votes or sort ballot papers for each candidate (referring to a political party in cases of an election of proportional representative National Assembly members or an election of proportional representative local council members) or may use machines or electronic computer systems necessary for computing. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>

National Election Commission, Counting [web content], accessed 30 September 2018

“Counting method:

When voting is finished, ballot boxes are sent to the counting centers and counting begins.

Optical scan counters have been used since the 3rd general local elections in 2002.

Process of Counting:

Opening ballot boxes => Unfolding ballot papers => Counting using the Optical Scan Ballot Sorting and Counting Machine => Examination, verification, tabulation (manual counting of unclassified ballot papers, examination of classified ballots) => Announcement of count results by voting district”

Once the polls are closed at each polling station, ballots boxes are transported to 1 or 2 counting centers established by election commissions per local government unit within 0.5 to 1 hour. As soon as the counting process for 1 polling station is done at a counting center, the counting result is recorded in the computer system. A ballot box from each of the 30 to 100 polling stations is transported to 1 counting center, where the ballots are counted in due order. The counting results from each counting center are transmitted to the computer network, which are automatically tallied up nationwide. The information is made public in real-time via the Internet and broadcasting network.