Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Chien-hsing (蔡見興) requested a recount yesterday after fierce competition in the election for Penghu County commissioner.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Wang Chien-fa (王乾發) declared himself the winner after the Central Election Commission released its official results, giving Wang 22,664 votes against Tsai’s 22,069 — a difference of 595 votes.
Tsai said his own count showed that he should have lost by 420 votes, adding that more than 1,000 invalid ballots had been discovered. Tsai said his vote count monitors had reported several cases of questionable activity in connection to the vote count, including how ballots were invalidated.
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Tsai said he would request that the Penghu District Court order that all ballot boxes be sealed and that ballots be recounted in accordance with the Public Officials Election and Recall Act (公職人員選罷法).
Chen Hui-ling (陳慧玲), chairman of the DPP’s Penghu County branch, said reports from vote count monitors showed that the flow at some ballot count stations did not meet requirements, that ballot counting staff did not display each ballot clearly and that ballot boxes for the county councilor election had been opened before counting of the ballots in the election for county commissioner had been completed.
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