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He said: "I hope as many people as possible would seize the opportunity to get out and to vote because it really counts.
"You've got to be really in it."
End/Sunday, September 17, 1995
BEC chairman urges electors to update information
The Chairman of the Boundary and Election Commission, Mr Justice Woo Kwok-hing, today (Sunday) urges electors to update their registration information with the Registration and Electoral Office without delay.
Mr Justice Woo made the remarks after a number of people were turned away from two polling stations in Yuen Long and Tai Po after finding their names were not on the Electoral Roll.
The office confirmed that the names of some 110,000 former electors were deleted from the Register because they had not responded to REO's written enquiry during the vetting exercise conducted during January and March this year to improve the accuracy of the voter register.
The Chairman said information of some 1.4 million electors were updated during the exercise.
He explained that electors whose information was suspected to be outdated in the vetting exercise were sent written inquiry and given one month to confirm their up to date particulars.
If they did not respond, then, their names would be included in the Proposed Omission List in the Provisional Register published on June 21 and they were given a statutory appeal period to lodge claims or objections.
Mr Justice Woo said it was only after this procedural safeguard, and when no further response was received would their names be deleted from the Final Register published in August.
End/Sunday, September 17, 1995