Wu Guoyu, a candidate for the 12th constituency of New Taipei City Councilors (Plain Aboriginal People) who was defeated by 4 votes, filed a lawsuit to seek judicial verification of votes.

(Photo by reporter He Yuhua)

[Reporter He Yuhua/New Taipei Report] Wu Guoyu, a candidate for the 12th electoral district (Plain Aboriginal people) of New Taipei City Councilors, lost the election by 4 votes, but because of Article 69 of the "Public Official Election and Recall Law", the recounting regulations did not include county and city councilors In the election, Wu Guoyu will conduct judicial voting through judicial proceedings. Legislator Hong Mengkai also expressed his support and emphasized that he will propose an amendment to Article 69 of the Election and Recall Law to include all democratically elected leaders and representatives of public opinion into the scope of administrative voting.

The 12th electoral district of New Taipei City Councilors (Plain Aboriginals) should be elected for 3 seats. The result of the counting of votes was that Yang Chunmei of the KMT got the most votes with 3,630 votes, followed by Song Yuzhen, a non-party member with 2,644 votes, and Su Jinxiong Paylang, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.

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Amid lost 1177 votes by 4 votes.

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Wu Guoyu said that Article 69 of the Election and Strike Law "administrative vote verification" is limited to legislators, mayors, county mayors or aboriginal legislators, and does not include county and city councilors. Scope of ballot checking; In addition, from the night of ballot counting to now, many aborigines have reported that they voted but voted ○, and they are quite puzzled, "why the votes we voted disappeared".

Wu Guoyu said that after settling down and discussing with the legal team, he hoped to move towards judicial ballot verification through judicial election litigation, and to explain to voters; If you have relevant evidence, you can send him a private message through Wu Guoyu's Facebook fan page. According to his current knowledge, there are at least two polling stations, and voters reported that they had voted but issued ○ votes.

It is understood that there are a total of 2,663 voting stations in New Taipei City. Wu Guoyu said that the average number of votes per aboriginal vote is about 2 to 8. When counting or giving votes, it is easy to have flaws or unfamiliarity; through litigation to fight for judicial verification , not only for individuals, but also for the hopes and controversies of those who are willing to believe in the system to be cleared up.