The general election of the Legislative Council held in December this year is the first Legislative Council election after the electoral reform. A document submitted by the government to the Legislative Council stated that this election will have more than 620 general voting stations and will be quarantined in Penny's Bay in response to the epidemic. A polling station is set up in the center for people who are undergoing quarantine to vote.
The establishment has requested for many years to shorten the voting time on the polling day of the Legislative Council. This election has finally been shortened by one hour, and the voting will be delayed until 8:30 in the morning, and it will end at 10:30 in the evening.
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According to a document submitted to the Constitutional Affairs Committee by the Administration, in response to the adoption of the electronic voter register system and other improvement measures for the first time in the general election of the Legislative Council, the Registration and Electoral Office believes that there is a need to allow staff more time for equipment and data networks. The final check of the other settings of the connection is therefore planned to change the polling time of the polling station from 8:30 am to 10:30 pm, a total of 14 hours.
In the past, the voting time for the Legislative Council elections was from 7:30 am to 10:30 pm. In other words, the opening time of the voting station was shortened by one hour.
The Registration and Electoral Office plans to recruit about 36,000 staff to be responsible for voting and counting on polling day. The recruitment is now underway.
The importance of general citizens' voting
In addition, there were 571 polling stations in the 2016 Legislative Council general election. Although the number of members elected by voters in this election is reduced (the number of direct elections and functional constituency members decreased by 15 and 5, respectively, and due to the addition of electoral committees, The proportions of these two sectors in the entire Legislative Council have also decreased), but the general voting stations available for citizens to vote have risen instead of falling, and there will be more than 620.
The Election Committee, which elected 40 members of the Election Committee sector, will vote at the Election Committee sector polling station of the Wan Chai Convention and Exhibition, and cast their votes in the Election Committee sector, geographical constituency and functional constituency at the same time.
In addition, in order to make it easier for the government to distinguish, ballots for geographical constituencies, functional constituencies and electoral committee constituencies are different in size, color, color pattern, and code.
At the same time, each type of ballot paper and the corresponding pair of ballot boxes will be of the same color.
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