The People First Party (PFP) yesterday said it will appeal against a court ruling that disapproved of the comprehensive duplication of voters' name lists to be distributed to every district court where the vote recount will take place.
Suspecting that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rigged the election, PFP caucus whip Hsieh Chang-chieh (謝章捷) yesterday said the party had already collected some 100,000 copies of ID cards of people who didn't vote in the presidential election, which will then be matched with voter name lists to make sure no "ghost ballots" favored of the DPP.
Hsieh said the party couldn't agree with the court's ruling, according to which a comprehensive duplication of the voters' name lists would serve to leak personal information and violate privacy.
He claimed that personal information provided by telephone directories revealed far more information than that on voter name lists.
The voter name lists contain the electorate's names, ID numbers, home addresses and fingerprints or name chops of voters, while telephone directories only list the names, addresses and telephone numbers of those individuals who wish to have their personal information published in the yellow pages.
Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), who serves concurrently as Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice chairman, yesterday said the court's ruling that only certain parts of voter lists which had problems could be duplicated, instead of a comprehensive duplication, would hinder the recount process.
Wang said the court's ruling "causes tremendous obstruction to the recount" and the KMT-PFP alliance will do whatever it can to appeal against the verdict.
Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who is also the KMT's vice chairman, said although the court rejected the comprehensive duplication of voter lists, the KMT-PFP alliance could still review them.
Booklet
In response to the KMT-PFP alliance's calls for a comprehensive duplication of the voter lists and for changing one of the standards to validate a ballot, the DPP yesterday revealed a KMT booklet of guidelines.
The booklet, which was used as a manual to teach members how to be "fussy" when examining invalid ballots in favor of the pan-blue alliance, was distributed in an internal KMT training session on April 8.
The guidelines demanded that every party worker assisting in the recount be "persistent" and "fussy" about invalid votes seemingly in their favor -- that is, attempt to change invalid ballots into disputed ballots.
DPP Information and Culture Department Deputy Director Cheng Wen-tsan (
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