The Yilan District Prosecutors' Office has indicted 12 staffers from the
K-M-T offices in Yilan County for allegedly forging signatures in a campaign
to recall D-P-P lawmaker Chen Chun-yu.

Those charged include Lin Ming-chang, the chairman of the K-M-T's Yilan
County chapter, and and two senior local party officials.

The other nine were the heads of K-M-T offices in local townships and cities.

According to the prosecutors' office, all 12 have been indicted for violating
the Personal Data Protection Act and document forgery related to the first
stage of the recall process.

Prosecutors say Lin and the two senior local party officials instructed the
nine other suspects to forge some 4,000 signatures using party member
information - and each staffe was paid between 100 and 150 N-T per hour.

Of the around 4,000 falsified signatures, 1,106 were selected and combined
with 3,100 signatures from actual K-M-T supporters before the petition was
submitted to the Central Election Commission.