Keelung Prosecutors Indict Seven Over Forged Recall Petition Signatures

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Prosecutors in the city of Keelung have charged seven people with a plan to forge over a thousand signatures on petitions to recall two Democratic Progressive Party city council members.

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00:00Prosecutors in Jilong have charged seven people with forging signatures on petitions to recall

00:06two city councillors for the Democratic Progressive Party.

00:10They say the seven had a scheme to copy the personal information of over 1,000 people

00:15from party rolls, without their knowledge or consent.

00:19The goal was to forge those signatures to reach the threshold needed for a recall vote.

00:24Among the accused is a former city official who is suspected of accessing the household registration system for personal details.

00:33Taiwan's politics is locked in a partisan recall battle with ruling and opposition parties trying to unseat each other's lawmakers.

00:40The number of other officials have already been indicted on similar forgery charges.

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