Defendant

A and B imprisonment with prison labor for one year, for eight months, for Defendant C, for six months, for Defendant D, and for Defendant E.

Punishment of the crime

Defendant

A is a person who conducts an election campaign with the authority of the head of the planning team in the election campaign at H's election campaign, which goes to the position of the head of the legal team at the F Party for the 7th nationwide local election, and the defendant B is a person who conducts an election campaign with the authority of the head of the planning team at H's election campaign.

In addition, Defendant C is a person in charge of Do and accounting who is a person in charge of accounting at H’s election campaign, and Defendant D and Defendant E are H’s election campaign volunteers.

Defendant

A, while carrying out an election campaign on behalf of H candidate, listens to the question of sending text messages related to election at the election campaign of J, a competitor candidate, with a view to getting election campaigned by sending text messages without discrimination using election campaign staff.

Accordingly, on May 2018, Defendant A instructed the voters of the election campaign by sending text messages containing the information on H’s election campaign and the critical contents against H’s support lakes and marshes and competition candidates, which were election campaign staff members, who were in close relationship with Defendant B and Defendant C, and the election campaign staff of the election campaign team. Defendant C proposed to the same purport to Defendant D, who is the election organization, Defendant C, and Defendant B proposed to the same purport to include the persons who will send text messages along with the election campaign, and then arranged a list of the electors’ telephone numbers prepared at the election campaign in order to divide them into the electors in charge, and arranged to send text messages prepared at the election campaign from the election campaign in order to the electors in order through the mass transmission site of text messages “K”.

1. No one, other than a candidate or preliminary candidate, shall transmit text messages by means of automatic broadcast communications, and may affect the election from 180 days before the election day to the election day.