NVA Press Release 2015.12.07 

The Negative Vote Association (NVA) has just completed its 2nd   survey on the impact of allowing Negative Vote will have on the upcoming 2016 presidential election. The format of the survey had been reviewed by two of Taiwan’s leading political science professors: LIAO Da-Chi of Sun Yat-Son University and WANG Yeh-Li of National Taiwan University.  The survey was carried out by the Gallup Poll.

Our goal of advocating Negative Vote is the belief that this will encourage citizens to vote. So far we have done two surveys, by no means to predict who will win, but do have found that voting rate can be increased 5%~10% that is an additional 900,000 ~ 1,800,000 qualified voters will be willing to cast his/hers vote, if a system of Negative Vote is allowed.

We are encouraged that even though Negative Vote is a totally new concept and most people have not heard our explanation of its merits, the survey results showed 42.8% of the interviewed are in favour of having Negative Vote vs. 34% against.

With Negative Vote each voter is still only allowed one vote, either yea or nay. The survey showed without Negative Vote the Tsai/Chen ticket can have 42% support, but will drop to 22% if Negative Vote is on the ballot ticket. DPP’s party vote support will change from 34% to 17%. We believe with a Negative Vote system, citizens’ true view can be shown.

The Chu/Wang ticket will go from 16% to -4%, the KMT party support will go from 19% to -1%！

By subtracting the number of Negative Vote from the positive votes a winner received, truly reflects voters’ opinion on him/her.

Mr HUANG Shih-Cheng, now 80 years of age, a person without political party affiliation, won 90% of the vote for the ChangHua county magistrate election many years ago. He was also two term Chairman of the central government’s National Election Commission. Mr Huang endorsed the concept of Negative Vote.

GongSunCe a well know political columnist considered the concept of Negative Vote a great-leap-forward on democracy, 800 years after the Magna Carta.