Hong Kong started its first Legislative Council election under the revamped electoral system on Sunday (Dec. 19) morning.The Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC), Barnabas Fung Wah, called on registered electors to exercise their civil rights to vote in the 2021 Legislative Council General Election today.
Fung reminded electors to bring the original of their Hong Kong identity card to the polling station specified on the poll card to vote after visiting the polling station at Jockey Club Government Secondary School this morning.
"Electors are reminded that they may vote only at the polling station allocated to them; and the polling station allocated to them in this election may be different from those in the past. Thus, electors should carefully read the name and address of the polling station on the poll card," said Fung.
The Electronic Poll Register (EPR) system is used for the first time on a large scale to issue ballot papers at polling stations in this election. An elector must show his/her Hong Kong identity card and temporarily pull his/her mask aside at the ballot paper issuing desk as instructed. The polling staff will scan the elector's Hong Kong identity card with the tablet camera of the EPR system and issue ballot paper(s). The elector can check his/her name, partial Hong Kong identity card number and type(s) of ballot paper(s) issued to him/her as shown on the tablet on the ballot paper issuing desk during the issuance process.
Fung also pointed out that as the former District Council (Second) functional constituency (FC) has been deleted, the majority of the registered electors will only have one vote in the geographical constituency (GC) election in this LCGE, which is different from the "one-person-two-votes" arrangement in the past. In other words, most of the registered electors will only be issued with one ballot paper for the relevant GC.
As of 3:30 p.m., nearly 840,000 electors have voted, bringing the accumulative turnout rate to 18.77 per cent. For Functional constituencies, 41,823 electors have voted, bringing the accumulative turnout rate to 19.11 per cent. In terms of Election Committee constituencies, 1304 electors have voted, bringing the accumulative turnout rate to 90.06 per cent.
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