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its encouragement of civic education both in schools

and outside.

In 1985 it set

it set up a Committee for the

Promotion of Civic Education, under the chairmanship of

a Legislative Councillor. Community interest in civic

affairs is developing and may be expected to develop

further through these efforts.

Voting Systems for Legislative Council Elections

71.

Consideration of alternative voting systems is

a complex subject, on which there was a limited public

response to the Green Paper. Those who did comment

generally favoured the adoption of a "preferential

elimination" voting system for both functional

constituency and electoral college elections to the

Legislative Council.

72.

As explained in the Green Paper, this

this system

has advantages over the "preferential addition" system

used in the 1985 functional constituency elections,

because it gives greater weight to higher preferences

than to lower ones and does not carry the risk that the

candidate with the fewest first preference votes might

nevertheless win the election.

It also has an

advantage over the repeated ballot system used in the

1985 electoral college elections in that it involves

only one round of voting. The "preferential

elimination" system will therefore be adopted in the

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