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[District Council Election] Government clarification: The polling station is open for the first three hours to calculate the election result as a rumor

2019-11-22T08:41:17.432Z


The district board elections will be held on this Sunday. It is said that the polling station will not be able to continue operation after the first three hours of opening on the polling day of the district board election. The Registration and Electoral Office will calculate the election result by the number of votes for the first three hours of voting. The Office issued a press release in the afternoon stressing that there was no such thing and would not calculate the election results of the constituency until the entire vote in the constituency was completed.


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Written by: Hu Jiaxin

2019-11-22 16:29

Last updated date: 2019-11-22 16:32

The district board elections will be held on this Sunday. It is said that the polling station will not be able to continue operation after the first three hours of opening on the polling day of the district board election. The Registration and Electoral Office will calculate the election result by the number of votes for the first three hours of voting. The Office issued a press release in the afternoon stressing that there was no such thing and would not calculate the election results of the constituency until the entire vote in the constituency was completed.

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According to the Registration and Electoral Office, the voting time for general polling stations is from 7:30 am to 10:30 pm, and the total number of polling hours is hour. The Registration and Electoral Office stresses that the election results of the constituency will not be calculated before the entire ballot has been completed.

On the polling day of the District Council election, if a polling station cannot operate due to an emergency, and the vote can be resumed within 1.5 hours, the opening time of the polling station will be extended on the same day. However, if the polling station fails to resume operation within 1.5 hours, the polling station's vote will be postponed to the reserve polling day, which is December 1 (Sunday).

If the vote needs to be postponed until December 1, the Presiding Officer will properly seal the locked and sealed ballot box and all relevant documents in the witness of the candidate or agent and wait until December 1st to continue. Used to vote. On the day of the reserve polling day, the opening hours of the polling station will end at 10:30 pm from the time of the previous announcement of the suspension of operation. For example, if a polling station votes to stop at 10:30 am on November 24, The polling station will be reopened at 10:30 am on December 1 to 10:30 pm on the same day, and the entire voting hours will remain at 15 hours.

When voters receive a ballot on November 24, the Registration and Electoral Office will mark the elector's entry in the polling station at the polling station to identify it. Therefore, the elector cannot repeat the ballot on the reserve day (December 1). A spokesman for the Registration and Electoral Office said: "If a large number of electors concentrate on voting at the same time, individual polling stations will have a chance to appear. The station staff will serve the electors as soon as possible. Please bear with me and wait patiently."

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