Voting Exercise Held to Address Election Anomalies|防去年投票亂象 中選會舉辦模擬演練

Last year's nine-in-one elections and referendums were a mess, with countless voting and vote-counting anomalies reported. To prevent similar situations from arising during next year's elections, the Central Election Commission invited 300 people to take part in a voting exercise to identify possible problems that may arise.


Chaos reigned during last year's nine-in-one elections, with countless anomalies and irregularities reported at polling stations. To stop this from happening again, a voting simulation exercise was held at the Central Election Commission on the 23rd.

Election workers did their best to deal with various situations, including fights breaking out and voters tearing up ballots, and keep the line moving. One participant says he hopes there won't be huge lines at polling stations in 2020 like there were last year.

(Will this improve actual voting time and make everything go a little more smoothly?) Probably.

This was a voting simulation. During the next election, everything will definitely go more smoothly. It will be very successful!

Last year, the Central Election Commission said it would take voters an average time of two minutes and 10 seconds to finish voting. The media kept a clock running during the exercise and reported that voting time ran between two minutes and three minutes and 20 seconds.

This year's situation may be somewhat different from last year, because apart from the nine-in-one elections last year, there were also the referendums held at the same time. After today's exercise, there will be an internal review. We will probably set some reference standards that can hopefully help cities and counties with their (voting) time management.

CEC Chair Lee Chin-yung would not say if this could be improved and instead only said he hoped the exercise could reduce the frequency of irregularities.



為了避免去年九合一選舉併公投，邊投票邊開票的亂象再發生，中選會邀請300個民眾進行投票模擬演練觀摩會，除了模擬民眾正常排隊投票、也穿插突發狀況。

民眾撕毀選票，在場選務人員迅速排除，為的就是不讓民眾投票過程受到阻擾、耽誤時間。參與模擬的民眾期待去年大排長龍的情況不要再發生。

參與模擬投票民眾表示：「（對於真的實際投票時候狀況，會有比較順利一點嗎？) 應該有幫助吧！」

參與模擬投票民眾表示：「我們先模擬選舉(投票)一下，那到那一天一定會很順利，會很成功。」

去年大選中選會內部投票模擬，平均一個人完成投票需要2分10秒，這次根據記者實際隨機抽樣，大約要2分鐘到3分20秒。

中選會主委 李進勇表示：「去年情的況可能跟今年不大一樣，因為去年是除了九合一選舉之外，還併公投一起舉行，在今天演練之後，內部再進行檢討，大概我們也會訂定一個參考標準，希望各縣市都能夠掌握這個(投票)時間。」

至於未來能否再壓縮民眾投票時間，李進勇語帶保留，但希望藉由這次大型演練，找出選務缺失進行改善。