Taiwan referendum bill would put multiple questions on one ballot
Taiwan's opposition-controlled legislature is pushing through a change that would print all referendum questions on a single ballot, and the election commission says it will be a mess.
- The KMT and TPP plan to pass the change today, less than 100 days before an election.
- Election commission head Yu Ying-lung called it a disaster in the making and asked lawmakers to hold off.
- Voters would be forced to take every question at once, losing the choice to skip ones they don't want.
- Counting errors would multiply, and results could not be recounted question by question, weakening oversight.
- Only one article of the referendum law is being changed, leaving rules that make it unworkable in practice.
Outlook: The bill looks set to pass over the commission's objections, setting up a fight over how the next vote is actually run.