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Impossible Election for recall in Taiwan Appendectomy Project Yuren Ju https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zsUfYicpPuQk9SOvmBRWNxciX8HCUlmsg_5cZkqwO-s

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Fork and Merge an Open Government: Experiments of g0v in Taiwan g0v@Stanford Talk

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● Yuren Ju, ● Contributor of g0v ● Web front-end engineer in Appendectomy Project

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Do you know who has been recalled in California?

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A lot. http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recalls/complete-list-recall-attempts/

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Gray Davis, California gubernatorial recall election, 2003

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http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/1996-primary/special-election-results.pdf

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Do you know how to recall a state officer in California?

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Notice of Intention at least 10 people

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6 months to get petition signatures

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12% of the last vote for the office e.g. needs 12,352 signatures if last vote is 102,926 (Election for recall Paul Horcher, California State Assembly, 1995)

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Petition signatures 12,352 / 6 months / 30 days ~= 68 signatures / per day

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Election for recall Vote “Yes” > 50%

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How about in Taiwan?

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Notice of Intention Proposer

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Recap, Notice of Intention in CA at least 10 people

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Proposer in Taiwan > 2% people of registered voters e.g. if the recall selection against Paul Horcher happened in Taiwan, 3,581 proposer signatures is needed since registered voter in 1999 is 179,074

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Petition signatures

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13% of registered voter for the office e.g. needs 23,280 signatures when registered voters is 179,074[1] [1] Registered voter of Assembly District 60 in 1999

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only 1 month! to get petition signatures

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Petition signatures 23,280 / 30 days ~= 776 signatures / per day

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Same situation in Taiwan vs California 776 signatures / per day in Taiwan 68 signatures / per day in California

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WTF

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Election for recall in CA Vote “Yes” > 50%

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Election for recall in Taiwan vote rate > 50% vote “Yes” > 50%

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This is an impossible election for recall vote rate > 50%

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Why?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtvbZscM90A

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So it’s an impossible election for recall How should we do?

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Two challenges 1. Get 1,298 petition signatures everyday is impossible[1] 2. vote rates > 50% and vote “Yes” > 50% is also impossible [1] petition signatures needs 38939.

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Two challenges 1. Get 1,298 petition signatures everyday is impossible 2. vote rates > 50% and vote “Yes” > 50% is also impossible

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submit proposer signatures accept proposer signatures Only 30 days! submit petition signatures

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How do we get at least 1,298 everyday?

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Wait, there is a Mayoral election!

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Vote rate of 2014 Mayoral election is 70% a lot of people will go to election stations for vote, why don’t we setup a booth nearby every election station?

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submit proposer signatures accept proposer signatures Only 30 days! submit petition signatures Mayoral election let’s get a lot of petition in this day!

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Step 0. create a website for selecting a legislator who should to be recalled

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http://to.13pa.tw/

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http://appy.tw/news/page/123/ Wikipedia - 蔡正元爭議事件

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Step 1. Proposer signatures

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online + offline

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Took 5 months to get 2% signatures :~(

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Step 2. Petition signatures

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submit proposer signatures accept proposer signatures Only 30 days! submit petition signatures Mayoral election

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It is 11/29

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And we also need to set up booth for petition signatures in the day of Mayoral election

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What we need on 11/29 ● for every booth: ○ signature boards x 2 ○ table x 1 ○ charis x 2 ○ volunteers x 2 ● There are 130 stations! ● and these equipments will be only used in one day

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How about making a website to borrow equipment and call for volunteers?

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How about designing the website that looks just like a game?

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we have a boss we have players we have missions.

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Two challenges 1. Get 1,298 petition signatures everyday is impossible 2. vote rates > 50% and vote “Yes” > 50% is also impossible

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Appendectomy community g0v / tech community

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153059345572082

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中華一番！/ Chūka Ichiban!

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Result of election for recall

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California vs Taiwan [1] the number is registered voters in 1999, not 1995 since that is the oldest data I can found from CA government ● Paul Horcher, Assembly, 1995 ● Registered voters: 179,074[1] ● Notice of Intention: <= 10 ppl ● Petition: at least 12,352 ppl ● Vote “Yes”: 35,860 (61.63%) ● Vote “No”: 22,326 (38.37%) ● Result: Success ● 蔡正元, Legislator, 2015 ● Registered voters: 317,434 ● Proposer: 6,665 ppl ● Petition: 49,949 ppl ● Vote “Yes”: 76,737 (97.22%) ● Vote “No”: 2,196 (2.78%) ● Result: Failure

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An earnest failure has meaning. – Mutta Nanba 本気の失敗には価値がある - 南 波六太

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Good news is the draft to fix law of election has been sent to Legislative Yuan :D

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8JDbtXZm4