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Eyewitnessing on US Presidential Election at voting spot
2012/12/17 07:23:16瀏覽65|回應0|推薦0

In the evening of election day, I accompanied my friend to a voting spot, located at the ground floor of a senior citizens' apartment, to cast his vote. My experiences on Taiwan's election told me that I must be fended off at the gate because I was not an eligible voter. But I was wrong. I walked through the entrance without showing any ID and no one stopped me. Then I stood outside the voting area watching how how how did people cast their votes. Like in Taiwan, the voters had to proceed to a counter to have their ID checked, so to match with their registration; if every thing is ok, then the "vote" is given. The vote contains many items for the voters to decide: President, state representative, city councillor, and several proposed acts; all of them are chosen by the voters electronicaly on the machine and transmitted to other counting centers automatically. In Taiwan, the voters cast their votes into a box, and when time is due, the box is sealed first and then, under the inspection from two major parties, the box is reopened and the public counting starts.  When one specific counting is done, then the result is transmitted to the main counting center to accumulate the final total votes. 

If Taiwan adopts the method like America's doing, I bet every time the opposition party must accuse the adminstration of rigging the election.  But no one here in America has ever doubt the fairness of the presidential election or any election.  Besides, any winner of an election in American won't make triumph speech until his or her opponent say congratulations to him or her first and deliver a concession speech publicly.  But here in Taiwan I have seen so many cadidates hastily announce they won the election when their votes cumulated have reached the winning margin, regradless the counting is still on.  Most people in Taiwn think they have democracy because they now have free election.  But they don't realize that the real democracy is based on trust, respect and tolerance among one another in a mature society.

November, 2012

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