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CEC
statistics show KMT part of most ‘ghost voting’ cases
TOUGH JOB: The figures showed KMT involvement in
five out of six cases and had been fined millions of New Taiwan dollars for
committing voting fraud
By Fan Cheng-hsiang and Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter, with Staff
writer
A pledge by President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration to rid the nation’s
electoral system of corruption may prove a real challenge to fulfill, as five
out of the six cases that have been investigated involving the use of “ghost
voters” to affect election results involved candidates from the Chinese
Nationalist Party (KMT), according to statistics from the Central Election
Commission.
VIOLATIONS
The commission’s latest statistics showed that six candidates, five from the KMT
and one from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), had violated the amended
version of Article 146 of the Criminal Code, which regulates the elections,
since its amendment in 2007.
The statistics also showed that the KMT had been fined a total of NT$3.3 million
(US$111,500) because of the infractions committed by its candidates, against
NT$650,000 for the DPP.
LAW
Paragraph 2 of the article, an addendum added by the Legislative Yuan on Jan.
24, 2007, stipulates that a person who falsely makes a census registration to
obtain the right to vote and does so will be subject to imprisonment for a
maximum of five years.
In addition, political parties whose candidates are convicted of transgressing
the code are also liable to a fine as collateral punishment in accordance with
the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act (公務人員選罷法).
KMT CASES
The five criminal cases for which the KMT was held accountable involved township
councilor candidate Ye Yan-hsiang (葉彥祥) in Taitung County’s Jinfeng Township
(金鋒) in 2010 (NT$500,000 fine); county councilor candidate Yu Hsien-te (余賢德) in
Taitung in 2009 (NT$550,000); village chief candidate Yang Feng-shun (楊鋒舜) in
Nantou County’s Wucuo village (吳厝) in 2010 (NT$650,000); township councilor
candidate Ku Chih-cheng (古志成) in Taitung’s Yanping Township (延平) in 2010
(NT$650,000); and mayoral candidate Pao Shih-ching (包世晶) in Daren Township (達仁)
of the same county in 2009 (NT$950,000).
The sole case for which the DPP was fined involved village chief candidate Liu
Yan-tsung (劉燕聰) in Nantou’s Xincheng village (新城) in 2010.
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