Sector
Joint
(ii) Cultural and Entertainment: please refer
to the voter eligibility proposed by the "Cultural
Conference Organizing Committee" and the "Ad Hoc Committee for an Entertainment Industries Functional Constituency". For details
please see the organisations' submissions
to the Select Committee.
(iii) Agriculture & Fisheries: voters should
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member
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mainly come from organisations of Federation of Pig Raising Co-operative
Societies, Territories Chicken Breeders Association, and the 1702 members of the Hong Kong Fishermen's Association.
For details please see the organisations' submissions to the Select Committee.
(iv) Academics: voters should be members of
Federation of Student Unions.
(v)
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Women: reference can be made to the list of
women organisations compiled recently by the New Women's Association (translation).
(vi) Elderly and the Disabled: voters should be
based on the lists in the Government's central registry.
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the
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Undoubtedly, the system of functional constituency is one which restricts democratic participation
in the elections. As the number of voters is limited, representation of the LegCo members returned is weaker than that of their counterparts directly elected from the geographical constituency.
most unacceptable part is, under such a system, some people have the privilege of "multiple votes", which is contrary to the principle of equality in the Bill of Rights.
Hence, the Association puts forward the proposal of "one man one vote" to replace the existing unfair election system of "one man multiple votes". proposal of "one man one vote" is made on the basis of the principle that each eligible voter should have an equal number of votes. In other words, on the basis of the "one man one vote" principle, it is hoped that voters may choose to vote in either the geographical constituency elections or the functional constituency elections. Voters may choose to vote in either one election, but cannot have more than one chance to vote. Therefore, if a voter chooses to vote in the functional constituency elections, he/she will have to give up automatically the right to vote in the geographical constituency election. As such, the unfair situation of "one man multiple votes" will not
occur.