HAVING A SAY: Today’s election is on par with the last presidential election, with 15,886 voting booths for the 19,102,502 people who are expected to vote
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 24, 2018
By: Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
More than 19 million people are expected to head to voting booths today to cast their
A message reminding people to vote is displayed on Taipei 101 yesterday.
Photo: CNA
ballots in the nine-in-one elections and 10 referendums.
Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Chen In-chin (陳英鈐) yesterday encouraged people to vote, reminding them to take their national identification card, stamp and voting notification billet with them.
Voters should use provided stamps to stamp the ballots, and not their personal stamps, for their votes to be valid, he added.
There are 19,102,502 eligible voters for the county commissioner and city mayor elections, and 19,053,128 eligible voters for the city and county councilor elections, the commission said.
There are 19,757,067 eligible voters for the referendums. Of those, 580,000 voters are 18 to 20 years old, it said.
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