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Employees urged to register as electors
The Registration and Electoral Office (REO) today (Monday) appeals to all working persons who have yet to register as electors to do so before June 1.
"If you have already been notified by the REO of the new functional constituency (FC) you belong to, and if you agree with the registration arrangement, you need not do anything further," a REO spokesman said.
"If you haven't been notified, you may have already received an appeal letter and a registration form from the REO sent through your employer's address. Please fill in the form and return it to the REO before June 1."
In the September Legislative Council Elections, all eligible working persons will have the right to vote in one of the nine new FC s representing them in their workplace.
To educate the public about the registration procedure and the main trades and services covered by the nine new FCs, extensive and intensive publicity campaigns have been launched since January. Electronic and printed media are widely used to publicise the voter registration message.
So far, more than 218,000 employers have returned information on their 1.55 million employees.
To qualify as electors in a new FC, employees must first be qualified as electors of a geographical constituency.
The spokesman said notifications had been sent to more than 647,000 employees who were on the General Electoral Roll (GER).
More than 500,000 appeal letters and registration forms had been sent to those employees not yet registered.
He reminds employees who have not received the appeal letter to take the initiative to pick up a registration form from one of 1,500 outlets where forms are freely distributed. These outlets include district offices, public housing estates, post offices and banks.
He also said if those employees who were unsure of which new functional constituency they belong to, they may call 2891 1001 for advice.
End/Monday, May 8, 1995
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