Taipei Times
Date: Sep 11, 2018
By: Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporter
The government is stepping up its efforts to prevent organized crime groups and vote-
Minister of the Interior Hsu Kuo-yung, left front, talks during a visit to the anti-vote-buying operations room at Yilan County Police Department’s headquarters on Wednesday.
Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
buying from interfering in the results of the Nov. 24 nine-in-one elections, the Ministry of the Interior said.
Minister of the Interior Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) recently ordered police stations at all levels, as well as aviation, airport, seaport and railway police bureaus, to help crack down on criminal organizations attempting to influence the elections, with hundreds of secret operatives deployed to search for evidence of bribery.
It is the first time that the aviation, airport, seaport and railway police have been ordered to assist in preventing election fraud.
As part of the crackdown, a candidate surnamed Lai (賴) running for a township council seat in Changhua County was last week indicted on vote-buying charges after he allegedly gave voters gift boxes of high-quality tea worth NT$1,000 each.
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