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Mogul still seeking company to accept his recount donation

David Sun (孫大衛), the owner of California-based Kingston Technology, is looking for a suitable organization through which to donate NT$100 million towards the facilitation of a vote recount, a Presbyterian Church of Taiwan representative said.

"Since the church has decided not to assist Mr. Sun in donating money for the recount, he's decided to ask friends to look for suitable organizations through which to make his donation," said Reverend Hsu Cheng-dao (許承道) of Taipei's Gikong Presbyterian Church (義光教會) yesterday.

Sun, a Taiwanese-born business mogul, announced recently that he was looking for a "neutral" agency through which to make a donation of NT$100 million so that a recount of the presidential election ballots could be carried out as soon as possible. He contacted the Gikong Presbyterian Church (義光教會), hoping that the church could help. However, during the PCT's annual organizational conference in Chuanghua on Wednesday, the church decided not to assist Sun in his endeavor.

"The vote recount is clearly a legal and political issue, so the church decided that it was better not be involved in any way in order not to compromise its position as a neutral organization," Hsu said.

The church originally planned to help Sun by transferring his donation to whomever the courts decided would have to pay for the recount. However, after discussions during its annual organizational conference, the church decided not to assist Sun.

The church said that it would be happy to help Sun with his donation if he were willing to use it in a way more directly related to ethnic reconciliation.
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