[FreeReign]

It's those damn confusing lotus flower ballots.

Or maybe it was those damn confusing names -- Chen Shui-bian and Lien Chan.

[Semper Paratus]

Or maybe it was those damn confusing names -- Chen Shui-bian and Lien Chan.

Can't tell Weit from Wong.

[Bobby Chang]

They can detect the difference since Taiwan ballots are in Mandarin (the symbols are different), the political parties are distinguished by their logos, and a specific "ballot number" is required to distinguish where they are on the ballot. In the Greens (Chen and Lu) case they were marked as Ticket #1. The Blues (Chan and Soong) cannot use the number.

P. S. How is Chen like an Al Gore of Taiwan? I'd like to know. The Heritage Foundation has some Taiwan talk.

But this was truly an election. This is Darlington weekend and I can remember last spring's squeaker. Here we go with another squeaker.