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More than 12,100 registered electors in Tai Wai Constituency should have received poll cards telling them when and how to vote in the Sha Tin District Council by-election on March 29.
The Registration and Electoral Office (REO) has mailed to every elector in Tai Wai Constituency a poll card, a map indicating the location of the designated polling station, a guide on voting procedure, an introductory leaflet on the candidates and a leaflet from the Independent Commission Against Corruption on a clean election.
"Electors who have not yet received their poll cards can make enquiries to the election hotline on 2891 1001," a spokesman for the REO said today (March 19).
"Electors must cast their votes at the designated polling station. They are reminded to read the address of the designated polling station on the poll card carefully," he said.
Two ordinary polling stations will open to electors from 7.30am to 10.30pm on the polling day. They are located at the Buddhist Wong Wan Tin College, Mei Lam Estate, Tai Wai, Sha Tin, and the TWGHs Sin Chu Wan Primary School, 38 Chik Fuk Street, Tai Wai, Sha Tin.
Special arrangements will be made to facilitate remanded persons and detainees, who are registered electors of Tai Wai Constituency, to cast their votes in this by-election.
Electors in Tai Wai Constituency who are remanded or detained by law enforcement agencies (other than the Correctional Services Department) will be able to cast their vote at the dedicated polling station located at the Tin Sum Police Station, 2 Hin Keng Street, Sha Tin. It will be open from 7.30am to 10.30pm on the polling day.
Electors in Tai Wai Constituency who are remanded in the Correctional Services Department's custody will be able to cast their vote at the two dedicated polling stations set up at the Correctional Services Department institutions. A polling station located at the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre, 5 Butterfly Valley Road, Kowloon, will be open for male remanded persons while a polling station at the Tai Lam Centre for Women, 110 Tai Lam Chung Road, Tuen Mun, will be open for female remanded persons. In view of security concerns, these two dedicated polling stations will be open from 9am to 4pm.
"Electors of Tai Wai Constituency who are under remand or detention and express the wish to vote in the by-election will be escorted by the law enforcement agencies concerned to the dedicated polling stations to cast their vote," the spokesman said.
"The voting procedure for electors and the venue set up at the three dedicated polling stations is basically the same as that of the ordinary polling stations," he said.
The setting up of the two dedicated polling stations at the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre and the Tai Lam Centre for Women will depend on whether there is any elector of Tai Wai Constituency remanded in the Correctional Services Department's custody on the polling day. An announcement on the opening of these two dedicated polling stations will be made by the REO on March 28.
Particulars of the five candidates contesting the by-election are as follows:
Candidate number: 1
Lee York-fai
Doctor
Political affiliation: ---
Candidate number: 2
Leung Wing-hung
Funeral consultant
Political affiliation: The Democratic Party
Candidate number: 3
Chau Chi-pong
Community worker
Political affiliation: ---
Candidate number: 4
Yuen Kwai-choi
Community worker
Political affiliation: Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Candidate number: 5
Chan Wai-man
Community worker
Political affiliation: ---
Ends/Thursday, March 19, 2009
Issued at HKT 18:04
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