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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1991
THERE WAS NO RESTRICTION ON THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES CHOSEN.
FOR THE DIRECT ELECTIONS, MR SUEN SAID, ALL 354 POLLING STATIONS WOULD BE OPENED FROM 7.30 AM TO 10.30 PM ON POLLING DAY.
"AS SUNDAY IS A HOLIDAY, VOTERS WILL HAVE AMPLE TIME TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE," MR SUEN SAID.
MR SUEN SAID HE HOPED THAT VOTERS WOULD BRING ALONG THEIR ÞOLL CARDS TO THE POLLING STATIONS BECAUSE THIS WOULD SPEED UP THE VOTING PROCEDURES.
BUT IF THE VOTERS HAD LOST THEIR CARDS OR THEIR CARDS WERE NOT WITH THEM, THIS SHOULD NOT PREVENT THEM FROM VOTING.
"ALL THEY NEED TO DO IS TO SHOW THEIR IDENTITY CARDS, " HE SAID.
POLL CARDS HAD BEEN ISSUED TO ALL VOTERS TWO WEEKS AGO. DETAILS AS THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF
STATION, THE DESIGNATED POLLING PERSONAL PARTICULARS OF VOTERS AND SO ON WERE PRINTED ON THE CARD.
SUCH
ÁLL
DUE TO GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS AND OTHER CONSTRAINTS, NOT POLLING STATIONS WERE EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED.
HAD
WHO
HENCE, SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS HAD BEEN MADE FOR THOSE VOTERS
AND WHOSE DIFFICULTY GETTING ABOUT OR WERE PHYSICALLY DISABLED, DESIGNATED POLLING STATIONS WERE NOT EASILY ACCESSIBLE, MIGHT CONTACT THE REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL OFFICE FOR ASSISTANCE.
"THE REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL OFFICE HAS ALREADY IDENTIFIED A NUMBER OF POLLING STATIONS IN BACH CONSTITUENCY WHICH ARE SUITABLE FOR THESE VOTERS. THE CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER IS 827 1122," THE SECRETARY SAID.
STATION, HIS WHEN A VOTER ARRIVED AT HIS DESIGNATED POLLING IDENTITY AS A REGISTERED VOTER WOULD FIRST BE VERIFIED. HE WOULD RECEIVED A BALLOT PAPER.
THEN
"ALL HE NEEDS TO DO IS TO MARK AN 'X' IN THE BOX(ES) ADJACENT PAPER, AND TO THE NAME(S) OF HIS SELECTED CANDIDATE(S), FOLD UP THE PUT IT IN THE BALLOT BOX," THE SECRETARY SAID.
ALL
GEOGRAPHICAL
CONSTITUENCIES WERE DOUBLE-SEATED
VOTER COULD VOTE FOR UP TO TWO CANDIDATES.
AND BACH
DUE TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL RESTRICTIONS OF SOME POLLING STATIONS WHICH MIGHT NOT BE SUFFICIENTLY SPACIOUS FOR CANVASSING ACTIVITIES, MR SUEN SAID A BUFFER ZONE WOULD BE SET UP OUTSIDE THOSE POLLING STATIONS WHICH MIGHT HAVE PROBLEMS IN MAINTAINING ORDER.
IN THE BUFFER ZONE, EACH CANDIDATE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO STÁTION ONE TO TWO PEOPLE TO CANVASS VOTES FOR HIM.
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"THE RETURNING OFFICER OF EACH CONSTITUENCY HAS ALREADY BRIEFED THE CANDIDATES ON THIS NEW ARRANGEMENT AND HAS SECURED THEIR SUPPORT,' HE SAID.
/"I BELIEVE