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introduction of direct
therefore, all
elections in 1988.
validly-conducted Territory-wide
It will be seen,
surveys show
that those who support clearly
outweigh those who oppose the
introduction of direct elections in 1988.
I now turn to the written submissions; and I propose
to divide them into three catagories :-
(i) written submissions in
with
printed
standard forms
no options being given to
being given to the respondents;
(ii) written submissions in printed standard forms
with options given to the respondents;
(iii) individual hand-written submissions.
In relation to (i), I suggest that it will be
unrealistic to distinguish this type of submissions from the
submissions collected in signature campaigns.
Indeed,
according to experts, there is no reason to differentiate one
from the other. Therefore, the 223,886 signatures collected
from the signature campaigns (after deducting 9,485 names which
were found to be repetitive) should be treated as individual
submissions just like the other 73,767 individuals who had made
written submissions by way of printed standard forms without
any options being given to the respondents. Viewed in that