The bar is high! At least 9,619,697 consent votes to pass the 18-year-old citizenship amendment

The Central Election Commission said today that 19,239,392 people had the right to vote for the constitutional revision of the “18-year-old citizenship”. According to the provisions of the amendment to the Constitution, half of the total number of valid votes of votes is required to pass; therefore, at least 9,619,697 votes of consent are required to pass.

At least 9,619,697 consent votes were required for the 18-year-old citizenship amendment to be approved (file photo)

The Central Election Committee issued a press release stating that the 2011 election of local public officials and the first referendum on the constitutional amendment will be voted on November 26, 2011. The election committees of municipalities, counties and cities will announce the number of electors and voting rights today. number of people.

According to the compiled results, the number of electors for municipalities, counties and cities is 18,967,771, which does not include the number of electors for the 11th mayor re-election in Chiayi City; the number of electors for municipal, county and city councilors is 19,128,745; 5,056,609 electors for mayors, mayors, and mayors of mountainous aboriginal districts directly under the Central Government; 5,050,920 electors for township, township, citizen representatives, and mountainous aborigine district chiefs of municipalities directly under the Central Government; 1,902 electors for village and borough chiefs 6,280 people.

In addition, the Central Election Commission stated that the number of voters for the first bill of referendum on constitutional amendments was 19,239,392. According to the provisions of the constitutional amendment, after the vote of the electors in the free area of the Republic of China, the vote will be passed if half of the total votes of the electors “pass” the valid votes.

Chen Chaojian, vice-chairman of the Central Election Committee, pointed out that according to the provisions of the constitutional amendment, since the referendum on constitutional revision requires half of the total number of electors with valid consent votes, it is regarded as passed according to law, so more than half of the 19,239,392 voters are 9,619,697 ticket.

Chen Chaojian said that if the total number of voters in the constitutional revision referendum is nearly 19.24 million, among them, the part of the first-time voters, as estimated by the Ministry of the Interior in August, is about 760,000.