Mr. Hsieh's running mate, Su Tseng-chasg, hascheduleded a "Support Tibet" rally for Friday morning while Mr. Hsieh has scheduled a "Protect Taiwan Democracy" election-eve rally in Taipei for Friday.
"It's called democracy: elections," said Alan G. Hevesi, the city comptroller.
Democracy Elections have been tarnished by allegations of fraud and vote-rigging.
IN A country that delights in calling itself the world's largest democracy, elections are taken very seriously indeed.
They may preserve some formal aspects of democracy — elections, political parties, a national assembly, or a constitution — but they rule above them by installing compliant supporters in key positions.
… The recent election of Hamas is the fruit of a policy that focused on the form of democracy (elections) rather than its substance (building and protecting a free society).
Others saw proof that the Electoral College must be abolished, that election technology around the country should be updated, and that even in a well-worn democracy, elections could smell fishy.
Later, when I visit the human rights activist Hanna Edwar, she will tell me that while her country may now have the appearance of democracy – elections and political parties – it lacks the functional realities.
The results sometimes restate the obvious, but just as often they are new and provocative.Most important, he shows unambiguously what observers of elections in poor countries have long suspected: that on their own, unless they are held in the context of a functioning democracy, elections can retard rather than advance a country's progress.
While the country is nominally a multiparty democracy, elections have generally been considered a sham.
