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[District Council Election] Questioning the Fairness of the Election Process

2019-11-27T09:17:05.147Z


District council elections have been held on November 24, and the District Election Officers have announced the results. The anti-revision storm before this election has triggered all-round and fierce competition. The process has received great attention from all parties, and related complaints have also increased significantly. Member of the Legislative Council Jiang Liyun plans to hold an appeals meeting on voting issues, intending to invite government officials to attend.


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Written by: Zheng Baosheng

2019-11-27 17:08

Last updated: 2019-11-27 17:08

District council elections have been held on November 24, and the District Election Officers have announced the results. The anti-revision storm before this election has triggered all-round and fierce competition. The process has received great attention from all parties, and related complaints have also increased significantly.

Member of the Legislative Council Jiang Liyun plans to hold an appeals meeting on voting issues, intending to invite government officials to attend.

Jiang Liyun plans to hold a voting appeal meeting on November 29.

Long queues on polling day affect elders' intention to vote

The non-formist faction has won about 85% of the seats in elected districts in Hong Kong this time. Many establishments complained of unfair elections. Some establishment offices were successively arsonized, disrupted, and destroyed. Candidates were also disrupted, harassed, and disrupted during election campaigns. Some supporters also expressed their fear of voting. .

Jiang Liyun pointed out that the long queues on the polling day affect the elderly's willingness to vote. They also said that they can vote with a copy of their ID cards. In addition, some citizens said that they had been "voted" when they received their votes. However, the cumulative number of people in the two periods was similar, which caused a lot of doubts.

Means that institutional supporters cannot enter the venue to watch the vote

She also said that the vote counting process was criticized after the vote was completed, claiming that some candidates complained that opposition supporters were standing in the counting hall, and that the establishment supporters could not enter to watch. The situation caused a lot of questions about the fairness of the election afterwards.

Regarding the controversial election, Jiang Liyun plans to hold a voting appeals meeting in the Legislative Council this Friday (29th), and will invite government officials to attend.

There are a lot of controversies in the current District Council elections. Among them, questionable votes were involved. Lantian announced the results until 1 pm on the 25th because of the counting of votes. However, the candidates and residents were not satisfied with the process and results. Counting station. (Blue field candidate Feng Desen fb picture)

Controversial non-organized Lam Tin and other districts won and lost

In fact, some of the constituencies in this year's district board elections are controversial, and both the formed and non-formed parties are unhappy. Lantian, the last constituency to announce the results, will not announce the results until 1 pm on the 25th. The Federation of Trade Unions Jian Mingdong won by 4,080 votes, 50 votes more than rival Feng Desen.

When the vote was counted in the first round of the constituency, Feng Desen won by more than 10 votes, but because there were more than 100 questionable votes, which was enough to affect the result, the director of the polling station re-counted the votes and accepted some stamps on the candidate's head or the party logo. It caused dissatisfaction with the neighbourhood off the court, and once rumbling, the riot police entered the field.

A similar situation also occurred in the Shengkang constituency of Tsing Yi. In the first round of counting, the non-formalist Zhao Baoqin passed the DAB's Liang Jiaming by 3,259 votes. After calculating the questionable votes, Liang Jiaming won 114 votes over Zhao Baoqin.

Nanchang Central also had more than 150 questionable votes at the first count, and Lin Qiantong, a non-establishment faction, received 1,501 votes, which is higher than the 1,500 votes of the DAB Liu Peiyu. However, after recounting Liu Peiyu, he got 1,640 votes, which surpassed Lin Qiantong's 1,538 votes.

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Source: hk1

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