After NPP and KMT (interesting couple…) called for a review of the regulation that would not allow positive COVID cases to go to the polls next month, CEC replied that such ban is not unconstitutional [and will remain in place].
Most people in this forum, including myself, can’t vote anyway. But what is your take on this?
I find it appalling that after almost 3 years of pandemic, CEC (and the government) has not even bothered setting up alternative “safe” ways for everyone to be able to exercise their basic rights.
Just posted this same thing on the other thread. I find this absolutely crazy. There has been a long time to prepare for this, its simply not acceptable not to allow people to vote.
Also this is a large amount of people, we are not talking 1 or 2 people here. Something in line of 300k I guess?
No one is reporting positive cases to the government now anyway. This is just a further incentive to hide having COVID. I know I got COVID from people who had it, knew they had it, and went out anyway. The only thing that kept me from dashing outside was a sufficient number of friends dropping by at random to drop off care packages (they needed me to unlock the main door for them. Would have been awkward if I wasn’t home when I was supposed to be isolating…)
The blocking of ANYONE who is of voting age from voting is unconstitutional, always. In the US, for example, barring anyone charged with a felony from voting is unconstitutional. How? All you need to do to guarantee a win is to charge enough supporters of your opponent with felonies and you are guaranteed a landslide win. Yet no one wants to talk about that. Taiwan makes people travel to their place of household registration to vote. That’s a poll tax — you need to spend money to travel during a weekend where everyone else is also traveling.
Then again, the way people absolutely shamelessly buy votes here makes me confident absentee voting would be a disaster.
It’s possible that changes are coming, as per this note in a Focus Taiwan report:
After the CEC [i.e. Central Election Commission] statement was issued, Victor Wang (王必勝) of the CECC said the government was considering relaxing the quarantine rules for COVID-19 patients and their close contacts, for the purposes of the Nov. 26 local government election.
Exactly. Florida Man (this time it was actually their governor…) just happily arrested 20 ex-felons for illegally voting after those individuals had been specifically directed to vote by state election officials. ‘Murica still believes only white, land-owning men should be allowed to vote.
Getting back to TW and responding to the various other people about voter disenfranchisement here, it’s one thing to have a heathy fear of the CCP totally taking over and screwing over TW election integrity. Its another to have the convoluted system they have in place right now. If you change your household registration, for example, you need to live there for SIX MONTHS before you can vote in that location.
Big reason why the householdregistration system needs to just fuck off and a newer system not connected to chinese styled control needs to be put into place. It’s really retarded.
In my opinion they need to do this for everything then, including influenza and what not. Or setup other voting options for those that are sick. taking away voting rights is going to be a huge reason people will hate the DPP now. regardless if what fingers point everywhere.
It is simply wrong. they should have other means of voting if they want to continue to mandate covid things. no excuses.
If they follow through with this, heads deserve to roll. Tsai should step in and be smarter than this.
Well, as a US citizen, I am required to file taxes annually and can’t keep more than US$10k in total in overseas accounts without even more headache. That means the US government is forcing me to contribute to their funding (mostly of pointless wars/reckless military spending while over half the US population has the literacy skills of a 5th grader) so I damn well better have a right to vote on what morons will make decisions on how to spend that money. Its different for countries where moving abroad means the government doesn’t expect you to owe them anything, but in that case, I live here in TW and pay taxes, so why can’t I vote?
Right, but why should citizens be the only ones to have a right to vote? It would make far more sense for me to be barred from voting in my place of citizenship (the US) but allowed to vote in my place of residency (TW). That’s where my life in and where government policies affect me.
I haven’t been keeping up much with stuff from my home country. But that having been said, it looks like COVID positive people are allowed to go to the polls, unless the following, from November 2020, has been countermanded, nullified, disputed, messed with, or otherwise rendered ineffective or only partially effective (in which case I’ll be happy to be corrected):
This is fascinating. Why did I think it was the Harper government who was reponsible? Here is why:
The rule denying the vote to Canadians outside the country for more than five years was enacted in 1993 amid debate about the strength of their ties to Canada and how well informed they are about the domestic political situation.
However, it was only in 2007 [after Harper became PM] that Elections Canada began to enforce the rule to “more clearly reflect the intention of Parliament,” said spokesman John Enright.
Until then, the five-year clock would reset for expats who returned even for short visits. Now, they have to “resume residency” before leaving again to regain their right to vote abroad.