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- From: huangp@ralphie.Colorado.EDU (Pei-yu Huang)
- Subject: NEWS RE: RECENT ELECTION IN TAIWAN
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.174238.481@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:42:38 GMT
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- "China News Digest (Global News)," January 2, 1993
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- Forwarded by: Liu Jian
- Source: AP-DJ, 1/1/1993
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- TAIPEI -- An election official was arrested in eastern Taiwan Friday for
- allegedly stuffing a batch of extra ballots in a ballot box during last
- month's legislative elections, a prosecutor said.
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- Prosecutor Hung Cheng-ho said he ordered the detention of Peng Te-fu who had
- monitored a polling station where 101 extra ballots were found during a vote
- recount following the Dec. 19 elections.
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- Prosecutors have found that the number of ballots exceeded the number of
- voters by 738 in 12 of the 54 polling stations in Hualien, 180 kilometers
- southeast of Taipei, where election results were questioned.
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- Hung said an unidentified witness accused Peng of inserting the extra ballots,
- but he denied the accusation.
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- The vote recount was demanded by Huang Hsin-chieh, former chairman of the
- opposition Democratic Progressive Party, who lost by 62 votes to Nationalist
- candidate Wei Mu-tsun, Hualien's mayor.
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- Huang's aides have accused Wei of collaborating with city and village
- officials monitoring the vote to help him win. But Wei denied the charges.
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- Interior Minister Wu Poh-hsiung and Hualien Magistrate Wu Kuo-tung have
- offered to resign to take responsibility for the voting irregularities, but
- their resignations were later rejected by Premier Hau Pei-tsun.
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- Election officials said a re-election will be held in the districts where
- vote-rigging was found to determine if Wei or Huang wins.
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