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About 297 personnel were deployed within ten minutes of the declaration on the night of 3 December 2024: roughly 10 to the NEC headquarters in Gwacheon, 130 to the NEC training centre in Suwon and 47 to the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission in Seoul. The Constitutional Court found that the deployed troops controlled access, seized staff mobile phones and photographed the IT systems, and that these searches and seizures without a warrant violated the warrant requirement and infringed the independence of the commission as a constitutional body.

In a televised address on 12 December 2024 Yoon Suk Yeol said that 'the NEC's capability of managing elections is questionable' and that he 'was wondering if voters would trust the election results when its cybersecurity is so vulnerable to cyberattacks and hacking', citing the National Intelligence Service's 2023 checkup as his basis for sending troops to commission premises. The Constitutional Court recorded his contention that martial law was declared to dispel suspicions of electoral fraud and held that simply having such suspicions did not mean that a serious crisis had actually occurred, noting that the commission had already taken security measures before the election.

The Supreme Court, the only court competent to hear a challenge to a presidential or National Assembly election, gave judgment on 28 July 2022 in cases 2020Su30 and 2020Su5028, the lead suits seeking annulment of results of the 15 April 2020 National Assembly election, and dismissed the plaintiffs' claims; the press release records the cases as those in which recount allegations were examined. Fact-checking of the whole set of suits found that all 126 were dismissed and that the irregularly printed 'cabbage leaf' ballots offered as evidence were held by the court to be minor mistakes and simple mechanical errors that could not be evidence of fraud changing an outcome.

Claims circulating after the martial law declaration held that United States and Korean forces had arrested Chinese hackers at a National Election Commission training facility. United States Forces Korea issued a statement saying that the descriptions of and claims about the United States military in those reports were 'entirely false'. The record of the training centre for that night accounts for the people staying there as 96 in total, 88 public officials on promotion and posting courses and eight external auditors.