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Electors reminded to vote tomorrow

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The Registration and Election Office (REO) today (Saturday) reminded all registered electors that elections for the geographical, functional and the Election Committee constituencies in the Legislative Council elections will be held tomorrow (Sunday).

An REO spokesman said an elector was only required to bring along his identity card to the polling station. However, it would facilitate the checking if he could also bring along the poll card sent to him.

"Electors who lost their poll cards can still cast their votes," he said.

A total of 495 polling stations will be opened on the polling day.

The Regional Council (RC) functional constituency (FC) and the Election Committee Constituency will each have a central polling station at the RC chamber, Sha Tin, and the International Trademark, Kowloon Bay, respectively.

The polling for the geographical constituency (GC) and FC (except the Regional Council FC) elections will be from 7.30 am to 10.30 pm.

Regional Council FC voters can cast their votes from 2.30 pm to 10.30 pm, while Election Committee constituency voters from 7.30 am to midnight.

"The ballot is secret. No one can force a person to vote or not to vote for any particular candidate and no one is required to tell which candidate he has voted for or is going to vote for," the spokesman said.

Electors registered only for the geographical constituency (GC) will be issued one ballot paper whereas those registered for both the GC and FC will be issued two, one for the GC and one for the FC.

"If an elector is eligible for two votes, the polling staff will inform him of the FC in which he is registered to vote," the spokesman said.

A white cardboard will be issued to electors who have received only one ballot paper and a red cardboard will be issued to those who have received two.

This arrangement is to ensure that no ballot paper will be taken out of the polling station.