Thursday, May 13, 2004
Recount, recounted
Some thoughts for current 16 millions ballot recount in Taiwan. For those, partially (vaguely) marked ballots -- remind me the Florida hanging or pregnant chads -- waiting to be "divined" by the higher court before May 20th, why don't they be categorized and scanned into computer, so the final rule (lax or strict) can apply to all. Better, can also make these scanned image without any candidate's label (even mirror the image), so it can be, indeed, "blind reviewed." Technically, it is not difficult. It is fair and square.
Think of this scenario, that on the eve of March 20th (decision day), the next president goes to the Lien-Soong ticket by the same razor-thin margin. During the recounting, find out more than 100,000 invalid ballots would have been on the Chen-Lu ticket if the rule for invalid votes had not been relaxed.
Think of this scenario, that on the eve of March 20th (decision day), the next president goes to the Lien-Soong ticket by the same razor-thin margin. During the recounting, find out more than 100,000 invalid ballots would have been on the Chen-Lu ticket if the rule for invalid votes had not been relaxed.
# posted by Laurent Lin : 6:26 PM
