By William Yang 楊惟任The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) have announced their respective legislator-at-large nominee lists. As a result, the two parties’ lists are often either manipulated by internal party factionalism or are controlled by a few influential individuals. With the open and free list systems, the order in which the candidates are elected is not set in advance. The open list format allows voters to circle the names of the provided candidates to indicate a preferred order in which they would be elected. In addition, with the free list proportional representation system, each voter is allowed multiple votes.

Source: Taipei Times November 23, 2019 15:56 UTC