I have been taking classes recently and happened to learn a lot of legal knowledge.
The recent "ghost petition" incident in Taiwan directly corresponds to the legal concept of "good faith third party".
A lot of voices have been criticizing that there were suspected ghost votes when Han Kuo-yu was recalled. Why was no one prosecuted at that time?
However, this kind of comparison actually ignores the core spirit of legal judgment—whether one "knowingly breaks the law."
The "good faith" referred to in the law is not the "kind-hearted" in everyday language, but refers to the state of "being completely unaware and unaware"; conversely, "malice" does not mean "having ill intentions", but refers to "knowing that something is going to happen but still doing it".
"Third party" refers to any person other than the parties to the legal act.
Therefore, the so-called "good faith third party" can be simply described as "an unrelated third party who acts in complete ignorance of the facts and believes in them."
For example, A lends his car to B, but B gives the car to C and tells him, "This is my car that I no longer use. I'm giving it to you."
If C has no idea that the car belongs to A, then he is a "good faith third party"; but if C clearly knows that the car belongs to A but still accepts it, then he is a "bad faith third party".
Back to the ghost signature case, if the people involved intentionally copied the list and used personal information to make up the numbers, it would no longer be "unawareness" but a malicious act of "knowingly breaking the law."
Judging from the evidence that has been exposed so far, a high proportion of signatures do not match the actual personal information, which obviously cannot be explained by simple negligence. If the prosecutors and investigators do not actively investigate and deal with such obvious malicious operations, it would be a real dereliction of duty.
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