【明報專訊】IN Taiwan, some candidates in an election of the Kuomintang's Central Standing Committee (KMT's CSC) offered gifts for votes. To clear themselves, most of the newly-elected members resigned their seats. Ma Ying-jeou, who has just taken over as KMT chairman, is faced with a political crisis. However, he has tried to make use of it - to use it as an opportunity to promote clean elections of the KMT and then of Taiwan at large. At an extraordinary meeting, the CSC decided that a by-election should be held. However, maladies of the KMT's and Taiwan's elections are so ingrained that Ma's plan of changing Taiwan's election culture with the CSC by-election is very unlikely to succeed.