Mon, Apr 02, 2001 - Page 1 News List

DPP selects election candidates

PRIMARIES The party's New Tide and Justice Alliance factions were the big winners in yesterday's vote, while some government officials, dubbed the president's `boy scouts,' also won the right to contest in the fall

By Joyce Huang  /  STAFF REPORTER

It is widely understood that such a practice of mobilization was used to influence voters to support certain primary candidates.

Most of these voters could be seen -- on television news coverage of the primary -- getting off buses and collecting their membership identification cards from individuals who seemingly control their votes before they entered polling stations to cast their votes.

The practice, however, is not illegal according to the party's regulations.

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