The Legislative Council Committee on Constitutional Affairs held a meeting today (27) to discuss the practical arrangements for the general election of the Legislative Council.
New Democrat Party chairman and guild member Ye Liu Shuyi pointed out that although Chief Electoral Affairs Officer Weng Yinghui has apologized for the messy counting of votes in the Election Committee election, the public does not want officials to apologize and head down. They just want to know what went wrong.
She also pointed out that Judge Feng Hua, the chairman of the EAC, is "a good man", but he "does not touch the red dust" and "lives on the clouds." The work should be performed by other unbiased members of the community, and the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Zeng Guowei, is required to reflect his views to the Chief Executive.
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Zeng Guowei pointed out that the meeting was not a "criticism meeting" He Junxian: No condemnation
In his opening speech, Weng Yinghui apologized for the unsatisfactory operation of the ballot counting in the election of the Election Committee. He admitted that the process of transporting the ballot boxes and counting the votes took more time than reasonably expected, and the work process and staff flexibility were also improved.
Weng Yinghui later explained the practical arrangements for the election of the Legislative Council at the end of the year. The nomination period is planned to be from October 30 to November 12. There will be 620 general polling stations, using electronic voter registers, and voting will be one hour earlier at 8:30. Initially, the authorities are recruiting 36,000 election workers from within.
Zeng Guowei said that he hopes that more disciplined service personnel will participate in the relevant work, and will require department heads to name some colleagues to participate, and will conduct political review of election staff to ensure that the staff are absolutely loyal.
The Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Agriculture and Fisheries Councilor Ho Chun-yin criticized that officials at the meeting "talking about issues that Members already know is a waste of time", and asked the officials to explain the experience and lessons learned by the authorities in this election committee election. Election improvements.
Zeng Guowei pointed out that the theme of the conference was not to condemn and review the conference. He Junxian retorted after hearing this: "Silent controversy (Zeng Guowei), don't let my top hat be over my head!" The Legislative Council election has its own unique characteristics. We will discuss with relevant departments how to do a good job in this election.
Director of the Constitutional and Mainland Bureau Zeng Guowei.
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Ge Peifan worries that the "specialists" deliberately crumpled the ballots and caused the electronic ticket counting machine to jam
The DAB Ge Peifan pointed out that there was no "perfect counting system" in the election committee elections, which caused the election to be stained. He also pointed out that the optical mark readers had jammed paper during the counting of votes. When voting, the ballots were "crimped", and the optical readers were jammed by all methods, and the counting time was changed from 14 hours to 24 hours.
Weng Yinghui pointed out that the staff would not "pass the machine" with crumpled ballots. He also pointed out that in the Legislative Council election, only 40 electoral committee seats elected by 1,500 electoral committees used electronic vote counting.
According to Pakatan Harapan, Liang Meifen said with a smile that he should seek truth from facts and "do not use the machine in direct elections". I believe these things will not happen to the 1,500 election committees.
Electoral Office: Only 40 electoral committee seats are counted electronically
Tian Beichen pointed out that most of the votes in the Legislative Council election were counted manually, and only a small part of the votes were counted electronically. He was worried that Hong Kong, which is a "smart city", would be ridiculed by other countries or regions. In the test, the multiple-choice questions are also corrected by electronic scanning, which means that optical reading is just an old technology.
He Junyao pointed out that if the Registration and Electoral Office is unable to count the votes electronically, you can ask the Jockey Club for assistance. "If you can't do it (electronic counting), then you can pick up the Jockey Club. La... the horse club "falls off", the public test, and the owners committee are all fine, but the election will be a big buddha?"
He Junxian criticized that officials at the meeting "talked about issues that Members already knew, it was really a waste of time."
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Election staff will be reviewed to ensure absolute loyalty
In addition, Zeng Guowei pointed out that the recruitment of election staff is an important task and is currently underway; in terms of political review, the Security Bureau has been initially contacted, and future election staff will be reviewed to ensure that the relevant personnel are absolutely loyal.
Zeng Guowei pointed out that this election will call on the heads of departments to nominate their subordinates to participate, and hopes that the heads of several disciplined services departments will name relevant personnel to participate in the election. He believes that more people will participate in the work of the record troops in the future.
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