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The Election Committee ︱ recognizes the seven chaos on polling day, the EAC argues that the dominoes influence the eighth proposal to optimize

2021-10-22T11:06:08.774Z


In the subsector elections of the Election Committee held last month, with only a few 4,000 votes, it took up to 14 hours and overnight to complete the counting. Some opinions also criticized that there was a "long line" at the polling station in the morning. The Electoral Affairs Commission today (


In the subsector elections of the Election Committee held last month, with only a few 4,000 votes, it took up to 14 hours and overnight to complete the counting.

Some opinions also criticized that there was a "popular queue" at the polling station in the morning. The Electoral Affairs Commission today (22nd) issued an investigation, acknowledging the seven chaos, and made eight suggestions, including optimizing the entire invoice process and reviewing the counting workflow. And manpower allocation, strengthening coordination between different groups, and training of election staff.


A spokesperson for the EAC pointed out that this election is the first public election after the election system has been improved. The staff may have focused too much on the changes to the election system and the optimization of voting arrangements, neglecting to review other arrangements that have been in use.


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The investigation report acknowledged seven major problems. First, there was a queue in the morning. The report stated that the reason was that the invoice counter staff were not familiar with the operation of the new system, which slowed the process. At the same time, voters had more queries about the new arrangement, and some people made mistakes. Fill in the ballots, explain and replace the ballots in time.

The EAC also stated that after the Registration and Electoral Office sent additional manpower to assist, the "troupe" had faded at noon.

Delays caused by not familiar with the new electronic balance sheet

As for the arrangements after the election, in terms of the transportation of ballot boxes, election documents and materials, the report mentioned that the transportation process of individual polling stations was much longer than expected.

Among them, at the polling station of the Yalishan Community Center, the polling officer found that the number of voters in the electronic voter register system was two votes less than the stub of the ballot, so it took a long time to review.

In addition, in the polling stations of the Kowloon Park Sports Centre, Tuen Mun Town Hall and Sha Tin Town Hall, the staff were not familiar with the new electronic account statements and mistakenly thought that they had to wait for the electronic voter register system contractor to count, and receive the system equipment to be returned. The ballot box can only be shipped after the documents, so there are varying degrees of delay.

(Screenshot of the EAC investigation report)

Many mistakes and omissions before opening the box cause domino delays

In terms of receiving ballot boxes, election documents and materials, after the ballot boxes were transported to the central counting station, the staff of the central counting station found that the staff of the polling station made mistakes in filling out the ballot settlement sheet, and the process of storing election documents and materials was also involved. Omissions, so the counting station staff will have to correct the errors or fix the omissions before starting the procedure of opening the ballot boxes, which will take a long time to process.

After opening the ballot box, the staff of the counting station must classify the ballots in the ballot box into individual sector groups. After the ballot box at the polling station of Sha Tin Town Hall was opened, the staff did not follow the established procedures and removed the ballot cover to synchronize Check to see if there are any missing ballots, as the time required for separate processes has increased.

Scanning the "paper jam" of the ballot paper is replaced by dual manual input

After checking the ballot, the staff "passed the machine" and scanned it with the cursor machine to count, but some of the ballots might not be stacked and a "paper jam" appeared. When a "paper jam" appears, double hands must be used to input the selection on the ballot By counting the votes, there was a "paper jam" in multiple subsectors that night, and the processing time increased accordingly.

Finally, in terms of handling the questionable ballots for adjudication, because of the three questionable ballots in the adjudication platform, only one can accommodate a subsector with a large number of candidates, so it needs to wait in turn.

As for the announcement of the preliminary counting results, candidates or agents of relevant subsectors must be summoned to indirectly delay the progress of other subsectors in handling problematic ballots.

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The report puts forward eight recommendations to optimize the invoice procedure and increase manpower

Based on the seven major chaos, the report puts forward eight recommendations, which require the Registration and Electoral Office to correct related programming errors in the operation of the electronic voter register system and optimize the entire invoicing process.

Simplify the process of filling out and verifying statistical reports after voting, review the entire counting workflow and manpower allocation, strengthen the training of election staff, and arrange for employees with actual election experience to take up the core positions of election work.

A spokesperson for the EAC said that the time for the counting of votes exceeded expectations. It is recommended that the Registration and Electoral Office improve efficiency and avoid delays without hindering the accuracy of the counting.

The spokesman also said that I believe the Registration and Electoral Office will summarize the experience of this voting and counting work, carefully study and explore how to implement relevant recommendations, and make detailed preparations for the next Legislative Council general election and the Chief Executive election.

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