Ke Wenzhe reveals the main reason for the low voting rate of the People's Party and calls for a 10% increase in mobile phone voting support

Ko Wenzhe said that he has plans to cultivate talents for the People's Party and will not let the People's Party become a bubble.

The founding chairman of the People’s Party, Ko Wenzhe, attended the Taipei City Council candidate Lin Zhenyu’s presidential warm-house tea party today. When he assisted Lin Zhenyu in the election, he attributed the low turnout of People’s Party supporters to “young and employed people.” Many people have difficulty returning to their hometowns to vote because they work on Saturdays, work across counties or cities, or are overseas. He claimed that if mobile phone voting can be promoted, the Popular Party's support can increase by more than 10%, and said that if absentee voting cannot be passed in the Legislative Yuan, he will resort to a referendum during the presidential election.

Ko Wenzhe said that bus drivers, medical staff, police and firefighters may have difficulty voting due to their shifts, and ethnic groups from the north and south will also have to pay transportation costs to return to their hometowns to vote. He also said that most of the supporters of the People's Party are "loose votes" and unlike traditional political parties that have fixed organizational mobilization, the turnout is easily affected by work and transportation factors. He criticized the Democratic Progressive Party for blocking absentee voting in the Legislative Yuan and believed that if the relevant bill cannot be passed, the Democratic Progressive Party will push for a referendum during the presidential election and strive to vote by mobile phone.

Lin Zhenyu revealed that polls from the last election showed that DPP legislator Wang Shijian had taken away about 15% of the votes from the People's Party. She also admitted that she had done two waves of polls, and the Popular Party had the lowest voting momentum among the three political parties. She called on supporters to go out and vote if they were eligible to vote. Ko Wenzhe finally called on supporters to "vote with good intentions and try your best" to turn their support into votes, emphasizing that simply supporting a candidate is not enough, actual voting is what counts.

In fact, Ke Wenzhe has continued to advocate absentee voting and mobile voting since the beginning of 2024. However, mobile voting involves issues such as identity verification, voting secrecy and information security, which has also caused doubts. Some netizens with technology and information security backgrounds have pointed out that a major problem with mobile voting is how to confirm that the operator in front of the screen is indeed the voter, and whether he or she is being coerced by others. It may be difficult to balance identity confirmation and secret voting.

Ke Wenzhe (right) attended the warm house tea party held by North City Councilor Lin Zhenyu (left) in his bid for president.