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HE MUST MARK A FIRST PREFERENCE AND IS FREE TO MARK SECOND, THIRD AND SUBSEQUENT PREFERENCES FOR ANY REMAINING CANDIDATES.

THE CANDIDATE WHO OBTAINS THE LEAST NUMBER OF PREFERENCE VOTES AT EACH STAGE OF THE COUNT DROPS OUT AND HIS VOTES ARE "TRANSFERRED" TO THE REMAINING CANDIDATES.

ABSOLUTE THE CANDIDATE WHO EVENTUALLY OBTAINS AN

ELECTED.

TRANSFER THE SAME ELIMINATION PROCESS AND APPLIED IN THE CASE OF A TWO-SEAT CONSTITUENCY.

MAJORITY IS

OF VOTES WILL BE

HIGHEST SECURE

THE CANDIDATE WHO SECURES AN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY WILL BE ELECTED

WHO OBTAINS THE NEXT TO THE FIRST SEAT, AND THE CANDIDATE

ELECTION NUMBER OF PREFERENCES AT THE LAST COUNT OF THE THE SECOND SEAT.

WILL

VOTING SYSTEM

NEW THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FOLLOWED THE PUBLICATION, IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR, THE WHITE PAPER: "THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: THE WAY FORWARD"

•

ELECTIONS FOR

BOTH

IT STATED THAT THE PREFERENTIAL ELIMINATION VOTING SYSTEM WOULD BE ADOPTED IN THE 1988 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTORAL COLLEGE CONSTITUENCIES.

ARE MAINLY OTHER AMENDMENTS TO THE REGULATIONS GAZETTED TODAY ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE

BEEN ALREADY INTRODUCED AT THE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS HELD EARLIER THIS YEAR.

THESE INCLUDE AN INCREASE OF THE ELECTION DEPOSIT FOR LEGCO

THE SEALING OF ELECTIONS FROM $2,000 TO $4,000,

BALLOT BOXES AND THE FORM ELECTORAL DOCUMENTS, REVISING

OF BALLOT PAPER, DEFINING

AND THE PROVISION OF DOUBLE-SEAT AND SINGLE-SEAT CONSTITUENCIES

A BALLOT PAPERS, AS THE UNIFORM SET OF DIRECTIONS FOR THE MARKING OF

CONSTITUENCIES PROCEDURE IN BOTH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND FUNCTIONAL WILL BE THE SAME.

WHITE THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT SINCE PUBLICATION OF THE TWO ERRORS HAD BEEN DISCOVERED IN APPENDIX C OF THE PAPER.

PAPER,

THAT, WHEN THE "FIRSTLY, UNDER EXAMPLE B, PARAGRAPH 6 STATED

(WHO IS ELIMINATED AFTER 110 FIRST PREFERENCE VOTES OF CANDIDATE D

30 THE

BALLOT THE SECOND ROUND OF VOTE COUNTING) ARE REDISTRIBUTED,

SET ASIDE PAPERS WHICH SHOW CANDIDATE A AS THE SECOND PREFERENCE ARE

AFTER THE AS EXHAUSTED VOTES BECAUSE CANDIDATE A HAD BEEN ELIMINATED FIRST ROUND.

BE

PREFERENCE

"THIS IS INCORRECT: THE 30 BALLOT PAPERS IN QUESTION SHOULD

ACCORDING ΤΟ THE THIRD TRANSFERRED TO CANDIDATE B OR C SHOWN ON THEM.

/"SECONDLY, UNDER