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KMT comes up with nine accusations over voting

According to a local newspaper the following charges were made by the Kaohsiung office of the Chinese Nationalist party with the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors' Office:

1. Polling station No. 772 in Chingtao Borough of Hsiaokang District erroneously reported 968 ballots that voted for Lien as for Chen, and 428 ballots that voted for Chen as for Lien. The pan-blue camp claims it has complained to the city's election commission but has received no response.

2. At polling station No. 408 in An-sheng Borough in Kaohsiung City's Sanmin District, three people discovered that someone had taken out ballots in their names. They were issued new ballots but the earlier three ballots were unaccounted for.

3. At a polling station in an elementary school in Kaohsiung's Tsoying Township, a ballot that voted for Lien was mistakenly reported as for Chen. The mistake was corrected after objections from two local councilors.

4. At a polling station in Kuanghua Borough, in Kaohsiung City's Kushan District, the presidential and referendum ballots were counted simultaneously, in violation of the electoral rules.

5. At a polling station in Minhsiao Borough in Kaohsiung City's Chienchen District, a voter used fingerprints in lieu of a seal but the polling station administrator and ballot monitor did not sign their names.

6. A voter in Tsoying claims that ballots bearing seals next to the number "2" -- instead of the square above "2" reserved for seals as required -- was counted as invalid while ballots marked in the same way for number "1" were counted as valid.

7. Polling stations No. 332 in Kaohsiung City and No. 837 in Kaohsiung County counted the presidential and referendum votes simultaneously, in violation of the rules.

8. Polling station No. 837 in Kaohsiung County counted more than 100 invalid ballots.

9. The pan-blue camp claims it has heard that the President Chen, Vice President Lu and close colleagues frequently held secret meetings at a monastery in Nantou County. It also claims that followers from that monastery had told them that Chen was planning to create a shooting incident on March 19 to boost his election chances.
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