In response to the election of public officials at the end of the year, the Miaoli District Prosecutor's Office is trying to prevent people from obtaining voting rights by falsely transferring their household registration, which will affect the fairness of the election. The household registration unit has identified 1,320 people who have moved abnormally. They have handed it over to the Miaoli police to check whether there is any fact of residence. If it is verified that there is no actual fact of residence, they will be transferred to the Miaoli Procuratorate to clarify whether the transfer is for children to study or to apply for social welfare subsidies. Or a "ghost population"?
The Miaoli District Prosecutor's Office has recently invited the Miaoli County Government Civil Affairs Department, 18 townships and municipalities' household registration offices, county police bureaus and other units to hold a liaison meeting, and decided that the household registration agency will screen and investigate the abnormal relocation information between January 1 and July 28 this year, and make a register and provide it to the police station in the jurisdiction for investigation.
It was pointed out that 10,415 people migrated in Miaoli County from New Year's Day to July 28 this year. The household administration unit found that more than three people moved into one household, or two households added a total of 1,320 people to the same address. Among them, 236 people in Miaoli City, 233 people in Toufen City, and 221 people in Zhunan Town were the most. There were more than 20 to 60 people in the remaining towns. At present, police stations in each jurisdiction have conducted interviews to see if there is any fact of residence.
Liu Weicheng, spokesperson and chief prosecutor of the Miaoli District Prosecutor's Office, pointed out that Article 146 of the Criminal Law does not prohibit people from changing their household registration. People who move to a place where they do not actually live purely because of employment, schooling, military service, or for their children's school district, rural insurance, urban area welfare benefits, guaranteed seats, or other factors, are different from those who move their household registration with the intention of supporting the election of a specific candidate.
In addition, in terms of judicial practice, when prosecutors receive a controversial migrant case transferred from the police, they will further determine the facts. If it is found that the person voted because of favor requests, political mobilization, false household registration to obtain voting rights, which seriously affects the fairness of the election, according to the relevant provisions of Article 146 of the Criminal Law and Article 98-1 of the Public Employee Election and Recall Act, the person may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years.
In addition, if voters who intend to support a specific candidate and then move their household registration realize that their behavior is illegal before voting and do not go to vote, it is only an attempt and does not result in unfair election results, and may be subject to lighter punishment.
