Coveted the purchase price of 500 yuan for one vote of Wu surnamed candidate in Zhushan Township, 6 voters confessed and returned the proceeds of crime.

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[Reporter Chen Fengli/Report from Nantou] During last year’s election, the candidate of Mingdai Township, Zhushan Township, Nantou County, asked voters to vote for him at the price of 500 yuan per vote, in person or through Wei Zhujiaojiao. Wu Nan was detained and forbidden to see .

Six of the voters who accepted the ticket money confessed to accepting the money and returning the proceeds of crime. Recently, the Nantou District Court sentenced them to 2 months in prison, 2 years of probation, and 2 years of deprivation of public rights.

In November last year, the Nantou prosecutors and police received a report that the acting candidate of Wu surnamed Zhushan Town paid 500 yuan for one vote. Zhuangjiao and more than 10 voters or related persons. At that time, Zhuangjiao surnamed Wei paid 30,000 yuan on bail, while the candidate surnamed Wu was charged and approved. He was the first candidate to be detained in Nantou County in the election at the end of last year.

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Six voters surnamed Chen, Huang, Zeng, Zhang, Lin, and Wu Zeng confessed to accepting bribes and surrendered their criminal proceeds. After a trial, the Nantou District Court recently sentenced them to fixed-term imprisonment for the crime of "accepting bribes by voters". 2 months, probation for 2 years, deprivation of public rights for 2 years.

The judge pointed out in the verdict that election bribery is the main source of corrupting the electoral style. It not only obliterates the true meaning of implementing democratic politics, but also seriously affects the fairness of the election and the atmosphere of the society. It distorts the electoral system to seek the authenticity of public opinion. Voters, knowing that election bribery will cause serious damage to the most precious electoral system of democratic politics, ignore the law and discipline. As voters, their behavior of accepting bribes has hindered the fairness of elections. He confessed to the crime and was therefore given a suspended sentence.