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its
encouragement of civic education both
in schools
and outside.
In 1985 it set up a Committee for the
Promotion of Civic Education, under the chairmanship of
a Legislative Councillor. Community interest in civic
affairs is developing and may be expected to develop
further through these efforts.
Voting Systems for Legislative Council Elections
71.
Consideration of alternative voting systems is
a complex subject, on which there
was
a limited public
response
to the
who did
comment
Those the Green Paper.
generally favoured the adoption of a "preferential
elimination" voting system for
and constituency
Legislative Council.
both functional
electoral college elections to the
72.
As explained in the Green Paper, this system
has advantages over the "preferential addition" system
used in the 1985 functional constituency elections,
because it gives greater weight to higher preferences
than to lower ones and does not carry the risk that the
candidate with the fewest first preference votes might
win the election.
nevertheless
advantage over
in the
It also has an
the repeated ballot system used in
1985 electoral college elections in that it involves
only one round of voting. The 'preferential
therefore be adopted in
elimination"
system will
the
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