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.