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Written by: Zhou Lixi
2021-04-18 14:48
Last update date: 2021-04-18 14:49
The Legislative Council is reviewing a draft amendment to the electoral system, which includes new crimes. Anyone who uses public activities during the election period to incite others not to vote, to cast unqualified or invalid votes is illegal and can be sentenced to a maximum of three years in prison.
The DAB Legislative Council Member Leung Chi-cheung said today (18th) that there is some truth in regulating the incitement of others to vote in vain. He believes that vain votes will indeed affect the entire election, cause the election to be unfair, or give the election a certain direction.
Democratic Party Chairman Law Kin-hee asked in turn, if someone thinks that all candidates are not enough to "love the country and love Hong Kong" when canvassing votes, why not call on others not to vote and reiterate that voting in vain will not affect the results of the election. I don't understand why it is unfair to the candidates. It just affects the government's face.
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While attending the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "City Forum", Liang Zhixiang cited as an example that a few years ago, Member of the Legislative Council, Huang Yumin, mobilized a blank vote, which reduced the number of pan-pop votes at that time, and questioned that this would create an unfair election.
Luo Jianxi thinks that there is no problem in calling for a blank vote. If someone listens to Huang Yumin, "it's him."
He also questioned that trying to regulate white votes was quite ironic. He said with a smile that more than 2 million people signed up to support the reform of the National People's Congress elections, while the effective voters in Hong Kong are only more than 3 million. Therefore, in theory, the government does not need to worry about too many white votes, but in reality The Chinese government is obviously worried that many people will vote in vain as a trend that will make the election face unsafe.
He also pointed out that voting in vain will not affect the results of the election. It is not like the election of the chief executive will not be able to reach the threshold. "What is unfair to the candidates?"
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Chen Weiqiang, a lecturer at the Hong Kong College of Higher Education, pointed out that the real beneficiaries of the vote are the radicals, because if they don't have enough votes, they will start to vote against the moderate democrats.
He said that the regulation of voting in vain would protect the moderate democrats, and he did not think that the government would worry about losing face.
Zhong Jianhua pointed out that it is not against the law to vote in vain or to call for vain votes all over the world, and it is difficult to understand that it is difficult to understand that "calling others to do something that is not illegal would violate the law."
He pointed out that in the polls, 61% of the interviewees said they were likely to vote in vain. If there are too many vain votes, the government will be embarrassed.
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As for the reclassification of the direct election of the Legislative Council into 10 districts, Law Kin-hee said that there is no research on the impact of the election, but he believes that Sha Tin and Wong Tai Sin are just the districts where the democrats have the highest victory, which will inevitably make the public feel bad.
Leung Chi-hsiung also believes that the demarcation is not ideal because it is only demarcated from the population, which makes cross-administrative demarcation happen. For example, it is more difficult for outlying islands to be included in Hong Kong Island to canvass votes, but he does not agree that the new delimitation is aimed at democrats.
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Under the new amendment, the government proposes to set up a "caring team" at the voting stand. Leung Chi-cheung pointed out that the DAB had already proposed to launch it in the 2019 district council elections. He questioned that someone tried to prevent the elderly from voting by queuing up at the time. Personally, I did not think about the "caring team". "Whether it is beneficial to the establishment is considered a matter of fairness."
Luo Jianxi pointed out that there was a lot of room for improvement in the administrative arrangements of the voting stations in the past. For example, there was no flexible deployment of staff in the station, but he did not think there was a need to set up a caring team. However, he pointed out that people such as pregnant women have a lot of help, and there are also voters rushing to work. You may not be able to line up to vote, and we should help everyone to vote more easily.
Zhong Jianhua said that from time to time, the society introduced convenient measures for the elderly and the disabled. He believed that as long as it would not affect the fairness of other voters' voting, there would be no problem.
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