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why you should visit #Taiwan during the #TaiwanElection a thread - 1
candidates running around Taipei with cute balloons 🎈-2 
you'll see an increasing number of candidates telling you they are "capable" (could also translate by "can do stuff" but it sounds bad in English). They respond to the common complain that politicians are lazy, that the bureaucracy is slowing done everything. - 3
My #TaiwanElection reflection - 11 hours into my work day, this is finally a moment that I can slow down and reflect on what has happened to me and my dear #Taiwan over the last 12 hours. We witnessed yet another history, one that no one saw it coming 14 months ago.
November, 2018 was a tough moment for me, with democracy facing fresh new challenges and marriage equality experiencing serious setback. That was the moment when I had doubt UN #Taiwan’s democracy, because everything I believed in suddenly looks seriously endangered.
I think my own pessimism pushed me away from covering #Taiwan politics for a while, simply because I wasn't sure if I could live through another political metldown on my own part.
#BREAKING: Incumbent Taiwan President, Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, is due to be re-elected by the great margin of more than two million votes in the 2020 #TaiwanElection. #HongKongProtests
Just in #TaiwanElection: Having bagged at least 7.77 million votes, Taiwan President, Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, has won at least 10,000 times more votes than the number of votes that Hong Kong Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, gained in 2017. #HongKongProtests
Just in: Over 7.77 million votes, Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen has won historically highest support among all the Taiwan Presidents-elect. #HongKongProtests
1/ Congratulations to #Taiwan’s new President #TsaiIngWen @iingwen and also #DPP @DPPonline under her lead! 👏🏻#Taiwan2020 #TaiwanElection
2/ Also glad to know many young politicians can successfully take seats in the legislature, such as #DPP’s Lai Pin-yu, Hong Shen-hang, #TSP’s Chen Bo-wei, and Independent @FreddyLim. Unfortunately, it is really pity that @enoch_tw can't make it this time.
3/ Today is the day for the majority of #Taiwaneses to choose their fate, to safeguard their democracy and freedoms, and most importantly, to say no to #CCP's authoritarian invasion. People of #Taiwan also show the world their defiance of #Beijing’s lie of #onecountrytwosystems.
Just in #TaiwanElection: Incumbent Taiwan President and Democratic Progressive Party candidate, Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, has just bagged more than one million votes, constituting to almost 60 per cent of the total votes at the moment. #HongKongProtests
@iingwen Just in #TaiwanElection: Tsai @iingwen has managed to bag one million more votes in about 20 minutes’ time, at least 600,000 votes ahead of her arch-rival, Han Kuo-yu of the Chinese Nationalist Party. #HongKongProtests
@iingwen Just in #TaiwanElection: The divide between DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen and KMT’s Han Kuo-yu has furthered. Tsai’s votes have exceeded three million, at least 800,000 more than Han’s. And Tsai is expected to be leading the race down the road. #HongKongProtests
#HongKongProtests 🇭🇰—
Rebuild #LennonWall Day!
Today is a BIG day for #democracy! Apart from #TaiwanElection, #HongKong is also rebuilding our Protest Spirit 💪🏻
This thread will show you #HongKongers’ creativity & our unique #ProtestArt! #StandWithHongKong
Rebuild #LennonWall Day!
Today is a BIG day for #democracy! Apart from #TaiwanElection, #HongKong is also rebuilding our Protest Spirit 💪🏻
This thread will show you #HongKongers’ creativity & our unique #ProtestArt! #StandWithHongKong
#LennonWall 2.0 in #HongKong
— the Protest elevator 😍
#HongKongProtesters’ creativity is just boundless & unlimited!
寧願最後徒勞無功
也不選擇無動於衷
#StandWithHongKong 🇭🇰
#5DemandsNot1Less
— the Protest elevator 😍
#HongKongProtesters’ creativity is just boundless & unlimited!
寧願最後徒勞無功
也不選擇無動於衷
#StandWithHongKong 🇭🇰
#5DemandsNot1Less
#HongKong stands with #Taiwan!
— @iingwen 蔡英文總統 is on #HongKong’s Lennon Wall!
#回家投票 #全城連儂日
#Taiwan2020 #TaiwanElections
Photos credit: #studioincendo
— @iingwen 蔡英文總統 is on #HongKong’s Lennon Wall!
#回家投票 #全城連儂日
#Taiwan2020 #TaiwanElections
Photos credit: #studioincendo
(1/n) THREAD: Setting the stage for the #TaiwanElection—happening right now!
By the #s: The big race is between Tsai Ing-wen (bottom bar) & Han Kuo-yu (middle bar)
Red: Unify w/ #China
Green: Independence
Light grey: Status Quo
Dark grey: Depends
Black: Don‘t Know
Source later
By the #s: The big race is between Tsai Ing-wen (bottom bar) & Han Kuo-yu (middle bar)
Red: Unify w/ #China
Green: Independence
Light grey: Status Quo
Dark grey: Depends
Black: Don‘t Know
Source later
(2/n) For #Taiwan2020 the most important issue people are voting on is how #Taiwan is to relate to mainland #China.
The top bar in this graph is overall sentiment of the Taiwanese people. As you can see, the vast, vast majority favor either Status Quo or Independence from China
The top bar in this graph is overall sentiment of the Taiwanese people. As you can see, the vast, vast majority favor either Status Quo or Independence from China
(3/n) You can also see that the positions of the two presidential candidates are *dramatically* different.
And as you'll learn if you watch this remarkable election primer with Lev Nachman @lnachman32, the political reality is also a lot more nuanced.
And as you'll learn if you watch this remarkable election primer with Lev Nachman @lnachman32, the political reality is also a lot more nuanced.
It's #TaiwanElection day here in #Taiwan, the last bastion of democracy in the Chinese speaking world. Long queues since 8am at the voting stations in #taipei
Looks like the polling station I was at isn't a representative enough sample. Thanks goodness.
It’s election eve in Taiwan! 18.8 million voters are eligible to go to the polls tomorrow to decide Taiwan’s next president and legislature.
Tweet storm follows about Election Day procedures in #taiwanelection
Tweet storm follows about Election Day procedures in #taiwanelection
As in every #Taiwanelection, the election is held on a Saturday, and polls will be open from 8-4pm.
Polling places are typically public buildings: schools, community centers, etc., w/in easy walking distance.
There is usually one polling station for every 1500-3000 voters.
Polling places are typically public buildings: schools, community centers, etc., w/in easy walking distance.
There is usually one polling station for every 1500-3000 voters.
Voter rolls are finalized a couple months ahead of the election, and drawn from household registration manifests.
So everyone has to return to vote in the precinct where their household is registered, even if it’s not where they live.
So everyone has to return to vote in the precinct where their household is registered, even if it’s not where they live.
