Taiwan Election: To Protect From China Interference, Many Are Barred From Voting – Bloomberg
Voters queue at a polling station in Taipei during the last presidential election in 2020.Photographer: Betsy Joles/Bloomberg
Shielding Taiwan’s elections from potential interference by China is such a concern for the self-governing democracy that it’s been willing for years to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of eligible voters to do so.
What bars so many from casting ballots is Taiwan’s insistence that all voting be done in person, a rule that’s been in place since the island of 23 million people first began direct elections almost three decades ago.
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