The National Communications Commission (NCC) will hold a meeting with the management of Taiwan Television (TTV) and four other TV stations today to determine the reasons behind TTV displaying vote counts on screen before the polls closed during the local elections on Saturday.
This year, polls closed at 5pm, one hour later than in previous elections.
TTV’s Web site was showing vote counts for all candidates by 4:35pm. It showed that Yilan County Commissioner Lu Guo-hua (呂國華) had garnered 149,000 votes, beating his Democratic Progressive Party challenger Lin Tsung-hsien (林聰賢), who, according to the site, had received 87,000 votes.
NCC officials monitoring TV coverage of the elections found that China Television Co (CTV), Formosa Television, Eastern TV and Chinese Television Service (CTS) showed that Hsu Ching-ming (許敬民), the independent candidate for Kinmen County Commissioner, had secured 80 votes only a minute after the polls were officially closed.
“Everybody knows that it was impossible to have any vote counts before 5pm,” said Jason Ho (何吉森), director of the NCC’s communication content department, adding that TTV and the other stations would be asked to explain themselves.
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