New York Post
Date: June 13, 2020
By: Paula Froelich

A recall election has become a real pain in the butt for one candidate.

The recall vote for the mayor of Taipei, Taiwan, got more interesting last week when Taipei City Councilor Chiu Wei-chieh pledged to “snap one chopstick in two with his buttocks for every 10,000 votes exceeding 400,000 in the recall against then-Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu,” according to the Taipei Times.

Han had infuriated people by pulling a de Blasio and running “as the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) candidate in the Jan. 11 presidential elections, entering the race a few months after he was elected mayor, in what some voters said was a betrayal of his promises during his mayoral campaign,” according to the paper.

Chiu got more than he bargained for with the recall stunt as 939,090 residents voted for Han’s removal — far higher than the required 574,996 votes.    [FULL  STORY]