The Electoral Affairs Commission Suggested Giving Priority to Elderly and Pregnant Voters
The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) is holding a one-month long public consultation on whether Presiding Officers are allowed to give priority to elderly, pregnant and disabled voters to vote first.
Voters can also be allowed to see whether their names are crossed out when they obtain their ballot papers in other to ensure its transprency.
The EAC is also proposing to limit the number of people who are allowed to watch the counting process. Observers should have their names and ID cards registered. They stated that some citizens caused nuisance and unnecessary pressure to staff during vote-counting process in the previous District Council Election.
Source: Now News #Mar9
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The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) is holding a one-month long public consultation on whether Presiding Officers are allowed to give priority to elderly, pregnant and disabled voters to vote first.
Voters can also be allowed to see whether their names are crossed out when they obtain their ballot papers in other to ensure its transprency.
The EAC is also proposing to limit the number of people who are allowed to watch the counting process. Observers should have their names and ID cards registered. They stated that some citizens caused nuisance and unnecessary pressure to staff during vote-counting process in the previous District Council Election.
Source: Now News #Mar9
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Actually, it is already closed
(26 May) China has boldly introduced the "National Security Law" into Hong Kong and set up a special agency to directly enforce it. It would not be regulated under Basic Law Article 22, effectively kicking Carrie Lam's SAR government and the police to the curb. At the same time, the secret police would be established.
Quickly showing its hand, China is convinced that international capital from the West would be unwilling to give up its huge market and Hong Kong this casino. The West would not leave the gambling table.
//What China cannot manipulate are the judicial system created from English common law and the judges at every level whose legal culture is based on English rational thought.
//China has long been striking away at the root of the problem... dismissing the Dean of the Faculty of Law Johannes Chan who was believed to be nurturing the newer ranks with English thought.
//The third issue is the banking and finance sector. This piece of territory is almost entirely under American control.
//With the Legislative Council elections coming up in September, China senses a great crisis. If certain academics and the pan-democrats are allowed to advocate for its 35+ [seats] and end up snatching more than half of them, the 2020-21 government budget will not be passed.
//If police funding is increased, the Legislative Council will veto the entire budget.
//If Hong Kong had implemented universal suffrage earlier on, the opposition and the government would have learned to compromise in council meetings.
//Hong Kong's Cinderella fairy tale actually ended on 30 June 1997. It's just that too many failed to believe it was closed and wanted a couple more waltzes.
Fully translation:
https://telegra.ph/Actually-it-is-already-closed-06-14
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Actually, it is already closed
(26 May) China has boldly introduced the "National Security Law" into Hong Kong and set up a special agency to directly enforce it. It would not be regulated under Basic Law Article 22, effectively kicking Carrie Lam's SAR government and the police to the curb. At the same time, the secret police would be established.
Quickly showing its hand, China is convinced that international capital from the West would be unwilling to give up its huge market and Hong Kong this casino. The West would not leave the gambling table.
//What China cannot manipulate are the judicial system created from English common law and the judges at every level whose legal culture is based on English rational thought.
//China has long been striking away at the root of the problem... dismissing the Dean of the Faculty of Law Johannes Chan who was believed to be nurturing the newer ranks with English thought.
//The third issue is the banking and finance sector. This piece of territory is almost entirely under American control.
//With the Legislative Council elections coming up in September, China senses a great crisis. If certain academics and the pan-democrats are allowed to advocate for its 35+ [seats] and end up snatching more than half of them, the 2020-21 government budget will not be passed.
//If police funding is increased, the Legislative Council will veto the entire budget.
//If Hong Kong had implemented universal suffrage earlier on, the opposition and the government would have learned to compromise in council meetings.
//Hong Kong's Cinderella fairy tale actually ended on 30 June 1997. It's just that too many failed to believe it was closed and wanted a couple more waltzes.
Fully translation:
https://telegra.ph/Actually-it-is-already-closed-06-14
Source: CUP
#HandOver #RuleOfLaw #Judge #NationalSecurityLaw #Article22 #LegislativeCouncilElection
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Actually, it is already closed
(Photo caption: On 1 July 1997, China and the United Kingdom signed a document to formally return Hong Kong to China. Image Source: Staff Photographer／South China Morning Post via Getty Images) (26 May) China has boldly introduced the "National Security…
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Why postpone the Legislative Council elections? Mainland's supporters cannot make it: Tam Yiu-chung
Host: How will it affect mainland supporters?
Tam: It's not that they don't want to come [to Hong Kong] and vote, but that they can't come here at all!
Host: Why can't they come? There are no traffic problems.
Tam: 14 days (of quarantine)!
Host: Well, they can come earlier.
Tam: Then, they have nowhere to stay.
Host: They have nowhere to live in Hong Kong?
Tam: Of course not, they've already moved to the Greater Bay Area so what can they do? And they can't come back here because of the quarantine.
Tam's words were a rude awakening. No wonder there are tourist buses taking people to vote at every election. An example was the District Council elections in November last year. Bus upon bus of voters suspected to be from the mainland were taken to the voting station at Man Kiu College, a constituency in Braemar Hill. No matter from what angle you look at them, they still didn't look like Braemar Hill residents!
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Why postpone the Legislative Council elections? Mainland's supporters cannot make it: Tam Yiu-chung
Host: How will it affect mainland supporters?
Tam: It's not that they don't want to come [to Hong Kong] and vote, but that they can't come here at all!
Host: Why can't they come? There are no traffic problems.
Tam: 14 days (of quarantine)!
Host: Well, they can come earlier.
Tam: Then, they have nowhere to stay.
Host: They have nowhere to live in Hong Kong?
Tam: Of course not, they've already moved to the Greater Bay Area so what can they do? And they can't come back here because of the quarantine.
Tam's words were a rude awakening. No wonder there are tourist buses taking people to vote at every election. An example was the District Council elections in November last year. Bus upon bus of voters suspected to be from the mainland were taken to the voting station at Man Kiu College, a constituency in Braemar Hill. No matter from what angle you look at them, they still didn't look like Braemar Hill residents!
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