Finding a balance in recall votes By Joshua Tin 田台仁 He was elected twice, with more than 16,000 votes each time, but on Jan. 16, 84,582 people voted to oust him in a recall vote. Could former Taoyuan city councilor Wang Hao-yu (王浩宇), who left office on Friday last week, really have behaved badly enough for more than 80,000 people to vote for his ouster? Some people say this happened because of loud voices on the Internet. Others put it down to mobilization by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). No matter why it happened, the simplest factor involved is a mathematical one. In a multimember electoral district where 90 percent of voters support the KMT or other pan-blue parties, Wang was re-elected in 2018 with just 8.68 percent of the vote.