Taipei Times
Date: Dec 31, 2019
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
More than 80 percent of students who took part in online mock elections ahead of the Jan. 11 polls
Members of National Students’ Union of Taiwan hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday to announce the results of an online mock election.
Photo: CNA
The mock elections were jointly organized by groups including the Taiwan Youth Association for Democracy and the Taiwan Alliance for Advancement of Youth Rights and Welfare, as well as 35 university student unions, the union said.
Voting took place on Facebook from 8:20pm on Thursday last week to 8:20pm on Sunday, the groups said, adding that holders of student identification cards from senior high schools, vocational high schools and universities in Taiwan were allowed to vote for one presidential candidate and one political party.
A total of 11,369 valid votes were cast in the mock elections, union president Tan Ko-him (陳佑維) said, adding that invalid votes, such as those cast by non-students, were not counted.
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