TNAG-2722-FCO40-3928-Hong-Kong-elections-Election-Committee-1993 — Page 53

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G.F. JIC

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Why not "ulti-seat, single vote" system?

st our established principle of giving

This goes against

electors as many votes as there are seats.

In any case

only think of

very rarely used in other places. [Can

Japan, which is hardly a model for an

open and fair electoral process, as demonstrated by recent events in that country.]

It could result in a few popular candidate(s) getting

the bulk of the votes, leaving other winning

candidates

on the

latter.

with

very few votes. This will cast doubt

representativeness and credibility of the

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