From: jhong@fnma.com
Subject: Re: A re-election is supposed to be hold on Hwa-Lian
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:00:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.163356.14160@dec8.ncku.edu.tw>  
lws@eembox.ncku.edu.tw (WenHsiang Lin) writes:
> BIG NEWS!!!!!
> 
>   738 votes of unknown sources were found in Hwa-Lian!!! The  
questionable
> votes were distributed across 12 different voting places. Hwang Sin-Je,  
the
> former chairman of DPP, required only 62 more votes to win the election.
> The election on Hwa-Lian is supposed to be declared effectiveless after
> the necessary investigation, since the discovered evidence can effect  
the
> result of the election significantly . This is the first possible cheat  
of 
> election found in Taiwan. The goverment said that a whole or partial re-
> election on Hwa-Lian will depend on the judgement from Judiciary. "I am 
> willing to receive any kind of punishment.", the chairman of Hwa-Lian 
> Election Commision said. Many edged losers in the election now  
suspecting 
> the fairness of the election, and are asking for more re-examing  
processes 
> of the votes. All Taiwanese/Chinese in this net, could you tell me your 
> feeling about this event. I think that it's apparently a cheat instead  
of an 
> accident. I had never suspected the fairness of elections in Taiwan  
since
> the end of Martial Law, but until now.
> 
> WenHsiang Lin
> From Taiwan

I have the same kind of feeling.  After the end of Taiwan's Martial Law, I  
tended not to suspect the fairness of the vote.  It turns out to be that  
my previous impression was wrong.  I'd like to express some of my opinion  
here,

1) Cheating during election in Taiwan is not to hard because most of the  
resource were controlled by KMT.
2) It is hard to prove that KMT directs the cheating.  But it is easy to  
make people believe the cheating is made by KMT.
3) Having a re-elect is more complicated and less important than find out  
who did the crime.  We need to make sure that people in Taiwan know right  
from wrong.  Find out the criminal, give punishment, and return the  
fairness to our beloved Taiwan.  The punishment is a form of insurance  
toward the future election.
4) From where I grew up (Tsao-Twen, Nantou), Unfairness voting were often  
and ignored by the government.  The form of cheating include buying votes,  
making illegal votes, prohibiting non-KMTer's free-of-speech, etc.
5) Comparing with Chung-Li Event in late 1970's, I conclude that Taiwan's  
political environment is improved.  
In Chung-Li Event, an amount of blank votes were found in Tao-Yuan after  
election was closed.  Citizen found KMT was cheating the election.  PD  
station was attacked and burned down that night.  KMT accused the violence  
but never mentioned anything about the cheating.  The island-wise  
accusation followed thru the next couple of months.
6) I think it is a good lesson for those pro-KMTer to recognize KMT's  
pattern in the election during the past 40 years.  Any YOU are one of  
those key person that can help Taiwan better.  Please help our system,  
and, I am sure, Taiwanese are willing to stand with YOU to clean up our  
political pollution based on the context mentioned in this news post.

May you have a happiness this holiday season.

Ya-Fu Joseph Hong
Consultant at Fannie Mae
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