Taiwan opens mammoth vote recount (March Presidential election)

Ediacara

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Sun May-09-04 10:27 PM
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Taiwan opens mammoth vote recount (March Presidential election) | BBC

Taiwan opens mammoth vote recount

By Chris Hogg
BBC correspondent in Taipei

The opposition kept up protests
for days after the vote

Taiwanese officials have begun to recount ballots from the island's disputed presidential election.

More than 1,000 judges and court officials will re-examine every one of the 13m votes cast in March.

The opposition challenged the election result after President Chen Shui-bian won by less than 30,000 votes.

The opposition parties were angry that the number of ballots declared invalid was 11 times greater than President Chen's margin of victory.

The ballot boxes have been sealed since election night, when the vote was challenged before even the final tally had been declared.

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whistle

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Sun May-09-04 10:30 PM
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1. Was Katherine Harris or Jeb Bush involved in those elections...

...by any chance?

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jdj

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Sun May-09-04 10:33 PM
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2. Wish dArKeR would come around and explain this one,

I thought that they ruled Chen the winner.

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Merlin

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Mon May-10-04 12:19 AM
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3. Amazing it took so long to get this started.

Chen agreed to the recount within days of the election.

This brief article seems somewhat pro-KMT in its tone. It does nothing to point out the overwhelming likelihood that very little change will be found in the outcome, given the rigorously fair, scrupulously examined, public method in which the initial ballot counting takes place.

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