Overseas Taiwanese return to vote in droves

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More than 10,000 overseas Taiwan are expected to return to Taiwan to cast ballots in the March 20 election, the head of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission said yesterday.

Fielding questions at a Legislative Yuan committee meeting, commission Chairwoman Chang Fu-mei (???) told lawmakers that 10,601 overseas Chinese had registered to vote in the election as of the Feb. 9 deadline.

Chang said 1,323 of them still had legal residence in Taiwan.

"According to government regulations, they do not need to register with our representative offices abroad for the election. Excluding this group of people, 9,028 overseas Chinese who do not have their legal abode in Taiwan have registered to vote," she said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/02/26/2003100181

Sort of sad that we can't more than 35% to vote in our elections and you've got Taiwnese fly from all over the Earth to just cast a ballot for Abian!

We're going to do it without you Sean! Evil can never defeat Life!