[JohnnyZ]

Turns out that the biggest problem in the election was in KMT areas, where they invalidated a lot of Chen-Lu ballots. Luckily their attempt to steal the election has been foiled! So who's having parties for the inauguration?

[The Scourge of Yazid]

How soon people forget. The KMT ruled Taiwan with an iron hand from the end of the Chinese Civil War-around 1949-until the time that Chiang kai-Shek's son died.

This was-and as far as I know, still is-a small clique of political apparatchiks born on mainland China who have forced themselves on the unsuspecting citizens of Taiwan.

Instead of building a coalition to oppose the imperial aggression of the PRC, they've decided to expend almost all of their remaining energy on sowing civil strife and de-stabilizing the Taiwanese polity.

[heleny]

Whereas stamps on the candidate's number, face, name and political believes as well as the blank square for the vote were usually considered "valid" votes before the change, only a stamp clearly in the specified square above the candidate's name is now considered valid under the new rules.

"People with lower levels of education were less likely to know about the new definition and more likely to cast invalid ballots and such people are more likely to support the Chen-Lu ticket," Hsu related.

That's too bad that people still have trouble voting. Scantrons (optical scan inked ballots) are easy but are at risk of stray marks causing errors such as on these invalid Taiwanese ballots.

I still think the punchcard is the easiest and most accurate method. Computerized touch-screen voting in CA had lots of problems disenfranchising voters in March, and people have raised concerns about the security or accuracy of the vote counts in the Diebold system. Some CA counties with touch-screen voting may return to punchcards or optical scan paper ballots this November.

Are they also tallying the ballots on which were written "none of the above," or will those be lumped in with the other invalid ballots?