The Analysis of the Contentious Drafts of Absentee Voting System

• Main Authors: Tsung-Ming Liu, 劉宗銘
• Other Authors: I-Hsing Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16704691696994689538

碩士 === 中華大學 === 行政管理學系(所) === 96 === It was 41.5% of electors who didn’t vote, according to the statistics of the seventh session of National Assembly Legislators Election by the Central Election Commission. And the reason that electors not resident in the registered addresses was the most important issues. In modern, democratic countries, voting rate doesn’t raise as the expending of voting right. The declination of voting rate is common in many countries. Some people even worries that the over-downcast voting rate would jeopardize the democratic politics. Therefore, for safeguarding the franchise and improving voting rate, absentee voting system is implemented. By literature analysis and in-depth interviews, it was found that absentee voting system would ensure franchise, encourage civil interesting in politics, help to raise voting rate and to increase the legitimacy of governance. The reason for unsuccessful legislation was that the legislatives and their parties haven’t had the sense of urgency from citizens, in spite of the interests of legislatives, political parties and the fairness concerns from election office. There are seven categories of absentee voting, and each has structural problems to be dealt with. This research suggests the followings should be concerned in legislation： 一、To amend the Constitution：to avoid the useless expenditure of time in policy-making. 二、To amend The public official elects the recall law：to avoid the needless repetition of law. 三、Who is eligible and how：those who cannot go to the polls by themselves due to work will be eligible；by means of constituency transfer mainly while polling booths in special institutions subsidiary. 四、Election affair programming：make plans depending on electoral districts and merging of polling stations in correspondence. 五、kinds of elections：Elections for National Assembly Legislators, mayor of municipality, assemblyman, and county magistrate will be considered in the initial stage.