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Poll cards have been mailed to more than 10,100 registered electors in Kwai Shing East Estate constituency informing them of when and how to vote in the Kwai Tsing District Council by-election on September 6.
"Electors who have not yet received their poll cards can call the election hotline on 2891 1001," a spokesman for the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) said today (August 27).
The REO has sent to every elector in Kwai Shing East Estate 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 clean elections.
"Electors are reminded to read carefully the address of the designated polling station on the poll card indicating where they should cast their votes," the spokesman said.
A polling station located at the TWGHs Chen Zao Men College, 1-5 Kwai Hop Street, Kwai Chung, will open to electors from 7.30am to 10.30pm on polling day.
Arrangements will be made to facilitate remanded persons and detainees, who are registered electors of Kwai Shing East Estate constituency, to cast their votes in the by-election.
Electors in Kwai Shing East Estate constituency who are remanded or detained by law enforcement agencies (other than the Correctional Services Department) can cast their votes at the dedicated polling station located at the Kwai Chung Police Station, 999 Kwai Chung Road, Kwai Chung. It will be open from 7.30am to 10.30pm on the polling day.
Electors in Kwai Shing East Estate constituency who are remanded in the Correctional Services Department's custody will be able to cast their votes at the two dedicated polling stations set up at the Correctional Services Department penal 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 Kwai Shing East Estate 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 designated dedicated polling stations to cast their votes," the spokesman said.
"The voting procedure for electors and the venue set up at the dedicated polling stations is basically the same as that of the ordinary polling station," 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 Kwai Shing East Estate 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 September 5.
The three candidates contesting the by-election are: No 1, Li Chi-fai; No 2, Chow Wai-hung Rayman; and No 3, Lai Fan-fong.
Ends/Thursday, August 27, 2009
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