Legislative Council Election ︱ Shorten the voting time by one hour and set up 620 stations including the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center

The Legislative Council election was held on December 19 this year. The Electoral Affairs Commission announced the guidelines for the election of the Legislative Council at 3 pm today (25th). The Chairman of the EAC, Feng Hua, will meet with reporters.

Due to the serious delay in the electronic counting of votes in the Election Committee subsector election last month, Feng Hua is expected to mention some preliminary suggestions for improvement.

"Hong Kong 01" will be broadcast live.

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Penny's Bay Quarantine Center has a ticketing station and other quarantine hotels are not available

The Electoral Affairs Commission announced the guidelines for the general election of the Legislative Council at the end of the year. The Chairman of the EAC, Feng Hua, stated that the Registration and Electoral Office plans to set up a total of more than 620 general polling stations in ten constituencies in Hong Kong, and the Registration and Electoral Office will also set up one in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The polling station of the Election Committee sector is used by voters in that sector to cast their votes for the Election Committee sector, geographical constituency and functional constituency at the same time. He said that all polling venues have been found.

Election polling time will be shortened. The EAC stated that the shortened voting time is due to the adoption of an electronic voter register system and other improvement measures in the general election of the Legislative Council to allow polling staff to have more time for related equipment, including data networks. For connection settings and final inspection, the voting time will be changed from the previous 7:30 am to 10:30 pm (15 hours in total) to 8:30 am to 10:30 in the evening (14 hours in total) ).

In addition, the EAC has decided to set up a ticketing station at the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center. Feng Hua pointed out that considering that people who are subject to compulsory quarantine at the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center, they are sent to the quarantine center under unpredictable circumstances. The quarantine center has sufficient facilities. Polling stations are set up in suitable locations. Therefore, after consulting the Health Protection Center, the Registration and Electoral Office plans to set up a polling station in the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center to allow voters who are undergoing compulsory quarantine to vote.

Feng Hua also pointed out that because the variant virus is highly contagious, from the perspective of risk assessment, the Center for Health Protection believes that it is inappropriate to allow people who are undergoing home quarantine or compulsory quarantine in designated quarantine hotels to vote at polling stations. Therefore, the Registration and Electoral Office will not provide special voting arrangements for such voters. Those who are out of town should allow sufficient time to return to Hong Kong if they intend to vote.

As for whether there will be ticketing stations at the Mainland ports, the guidelines did not mention it.

The Election Committee sector must vote for 40 people or it will be invalid

The Seventh Legislative Council added 40 seats to the electoral committee sector. The EAC pointed out that the electoral committee sector adopts a "block vote system", and the number of candidates for the electorate of that sector must be no more than the number of candidates on the ballot paper. No less than the number of members in this sector, that is 40, and that in order to prevent voters from erroneously choosing more or less than 40 people to invalidate the ballot, the polling station of the Election Committee sector will provide optical mark readers for voters Check whether there are 40 candidates selected on the ballot paper. "We encourage voters to use the optical mark reader to confirm the accuracy before putting them in the ballot box. The optical mark reader does not record or count the choices on the ballot paper."

In addition, the EAC will relax restrictions on reporting on the Election Committee sector, saying that considering the number of seats in the Election Committee sector and the large number of candidates, the media is producing and disseminating election news related to a certain candidate or other election-related news. When reporting, if it is necessary to mention all other candidates in the sector in the same program or publication or have practical operational difficulties, this guide specifically states that the media is producing and disseminating election news related to a certain candidate or other relevant information. When reporting on elections, you can choose to provide viewers, listeners or readers with the total number of candidates in the sector and the media’s platform for mentioning the names of other candidates in the sector in the program or publication, such as the organization/program/publication. Web page.

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