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Wednesday, February 21, 1973

POLL CARDS FOR URBAN COUNCIL ELECTION

A total of 31,284 Poll Cards specially designed to facilitate

the speedy issue of ballot papers to voters on Urban Council Election

Day on March 7 (Wednesday) are in the post today.

Each card bears the voter's electoral number, his name and the

name and the address of the polling station at which he is registered

to vote.

The Registration Officer today emphasised that it was important

for intending voters to produce their poll card as well as their identity

card at the proper polling station in order to vote with the minimum

of delay.

He added: "If an elector is unable to produce his poll card

on Election Day, he is still entitled to vote if his name appears on the

Final Register and he is able to identify himself to the satisfaction

of the Presiding Officer."

If some voters have changed their addresses since the Final

Register was compiled and have not notified the Registration Officer, it

is probable that their poll cards will. be. returned to the Registration

of Persons Office as "undeliverable".

Any person who has been registered as an elector and who has

not received his pall card within three days, is advised to contact

Mr. Hok Wah-ho of the Registration of Persons Head Office on Tel. No. 5-704393

to ascertain whether his card has been returned by the Post Office as

"undeliverable",

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