Former Legislator E-Tin Lee was acquitted of vote-buying under the first and second judgment at criminal court. However, he was convicted of doing so under the first and second judgment at civil court with the reason that he conducted bribery in the name of a donation. Lee was then removed from his position as a legislator. The significant inconsistency between the criminal and the civil tribunals' judgments not only lead to the decreasing predictability of laws, but also the following problems: (1) From the perspective of individuals, the court's decisions confused candidates and voters and had a negative influence on the defendant's rights and credibility. (2) From the perspective of the rule of law, such inconsistency might lead to a suspicion of political involvement in the courts' decision-making process. Such suspicion may be harmful for the education of democracy and the rule of law as well as the credibility of the justice system. (3) From the perspective of politics, the controversial issues mentioned above may lead to suspicions of the fairness of democratic elections. The problems can be attributed to two major factors. The first factor is the capability of laws. The vagueness in definition and explanation of vote-buying allows the judges to make discretions. It may hurt the quality of jurisdiction if the discretions go beyond common empirical and logic rules. The second factor is the judicial structure. Since each judge hears cases independently, they often give judgments based on different legal interpretations. The criminal tribunal and the civil tribunal abide by different standards for discretions, which can also lead to inconsistent judgments. This article suggests amending the election laws to specify the definition of vote buying, in order to tackle the root cause of the ill-defined problem of vote buying. If it is not possible to amend the laws in the short term, then this article suggests implementing the judicial reform as soon as possible, in order to solve judgment differences on vote buying by enhancing judgment quality, uniting differences in legal interpretation, and reforming the trial system.