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Perhaps I'm still a bit of an NPC, but I'm still thrilled I just cast my vote in the Taiwan election 🥳 Taiwan's path to democracy is really special and hard-fought it's still amazing all the different faces of people willing to participate, can almost feel the energy at the polls -- somehow it feels that every vote matters. I don't feel the same way about my votes cast in the States Taiwanese don't see eye to eye on a lot of issues yet somehow after all the votes are counted they find common ground to chart a path forward.

compared to the last election cycle I pretty much haven't been paying attention in politics and even around the dinner table the topic is seldomly brought up (the aunts and uncles used to always discuss the topic-du-jour). It's been a nice change, who has time to pay attention to clown world when there's Bitcoin and Nostr anyways?!🤣

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𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

I thought China controls who gets elected

Nyoro~n 2y ago

Republic of China's 🇹🇼 constitution does make it difficult for Taiwanese to take control, it's setup in a way that makes the 113year old constitution hard to change. Taiwanese are still chipping away at it 🥳 for example it'd take an almost impossible 3/4th legislature to make amendments, Taiwanese are kinda stuck with the Republic of China

People's Republic of China 🇨🇳? Literally zero influence over the island 🤷 taiwanese elections are often won on very thin margins, if the communists could control who could get elected ....the results show they really suck at exerting influence

Dave🐸 2y ago

vote > dictatorship

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Nyoro~n 2y ago

It's true, Taiwan could have easily become another North Korea if it wasn't for people standing up to authoritarians 🥲

Fun fact, the Republic of China attempted a nuclear arms program that got shut down by the CIA. That's a whole other rabbit hole 🐇 🕳️

karo 2y ago

my best memory of democratic voting in action is when my dad took 2nd grade me to polling place at the community room in produce market building when they were counting votes.

the whole process took a couple hours. after polling closed, they started opening each ballot. one guy pulled it out of the box and read it out loud. he passed it to the next guy who would hold it up to show everyone in the room. another guy was in front of a board marking down a tally for each vote. occasionally the ballot would have an invalid vote (no stamp, stamp touching the lines separating the candidates, multiple stamps, etc) which would be scrutinized by the officials and the public.

every person in the room could see what was happening. every person was, in their own way, authenticating the validity of the vote. it is the most straight forward execution of democracy.

#taiwannumber1

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Nyoro~n 2y ago

The results are interesting! First time since 2000 the elected president hasn't gotten majority vote, no party holds majority seats in the legislative yuan (think congress), all front running presidential candidates taiwan-born, first time the incumbent party was able to retain control over term limits (8 years) since direct elections started, decent turnout across all demographics and locales. Unlike any previous election, no candidate or party holds a mandate 🥳

This means in the next legislative session, legislators will be forced to cross the aisle to get things done rather than rely on the crutch of pushing majority advantages through obscure legislative processes. Taiwan's democracy will have to continue to evolve. Lots of firsts for Taiwan, election didn't go "my way" but still thrilled at the results!

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