Original sentence: " All elected candidates are members of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, a coalition of the three political parties.According to the North Korean government, "representatives of the Supreme People's Assembly" are elected by a free election.According to the constitution, North Korea is a democratic republic and the Supreme People's Assembly and provincial People's Assemblies are elected by direct universal suffrage by secret ballot.Other parties may have different methods.The Workers' Party selects an ardent party member with good background for each election district and nominates him or her as a single candidate.Then, voters select a candidate.Therefore, the Supreme People's Assembly, in its nature, is somewhat different from the legislature of a Western country
Edited sentence: According to the constitution, North Korea is a democratic republic and the Supreme People's Assembly and provincial People's Assemblies are elected by direct universal suffrage and secret ballot.All elected candidates are members of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, a popular front dominated by the WPK.Those who want to vote against the sole candidate on the ballot must go to a special booth to cross out the candidate's name before dropping it into the ballot box--an act which, according to many North Korean defectors, is far too risky to even contemplate