The Taiwan election is officially over and Chen Shuibian has won another term. I’ll be reading the various newspapers tomorrow at nearby coffee shops (which Taipei has an abundance of). The opposition KMT party has disputed the election, the suspicious facts surrounding the assassination attempt yesterday, hundreds of thousands of invalidated votes, etc. Whether or not foul play is proved regarding the assassination, or if some of the invalidated votes were done so unfairly, the dispute of the election is a blow to Taiwanese democracy and rings all too familiar. More on this at NYT and BBC in English. It would be very sad to see this get ugly in the next few days.