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About Chang Cheng-hsiung
- Chang Cheng-hsiung (Chinese: ???; born 24 November 1941) is a Taiwanese lawyer who chaired the Central Election Commission from 2004 to 2009. Prior to his appointment as chair of the Central Election Commission, Chang had practiced law for 37 years.
- He served as legal counsel for dissidents arrested during the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979.
- Chang has also served on the board of China Aviation Development Foundation.Chang was nominated to the chairmanship of the Central Election Commission in June 2004.
- In June 2007, Kuomintang legislators criticized Chang for scheduling elections for the seventh Legislative Yuan on 12 January 2008.
- The 2008 Taiwanese transitional justice referendum was scheduled for the same date, and local governments affiliated with the Pan-Blue Coalition announced that voters within their jurisdiction would use two-step voting, in which legislative ballots and referendum ballots were obtained and cast separately, instead of one-step voting mandated by the Central Election Commission, in which voters would receive and cast legislative and referendum ballots at the same time.
- Chang spoke out against the Kuomintang's decision, and stated that ballots cast via two-step voting would be ruled invalid.
- Chang later stated in December 2007 that voters could receive ballots separately if, during the voting process, they did not leave the polling place.
- Chang stepped down from the Central Election Commission in November 2009, expressing concern that a new commission was to be sworn in a month before local elections, despite that fact that the terms of outgoing members would not expire until June 2010.
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