Elector inquiry initiated

August 28, 2012

The Registration & Electoral Office says it has followed up on today's news reports on electors' alleged false registered addresses.
 
According to information gathered thus far, there is no prima facie evidence that vote-rigging or provision of false information is involved.
 
The office contacted some of the electors mentioned in the news report this morning and confirmed three of them live in a flat one floor below the flat mentioned in the news report.
 
It believed that its staff had misinterpreted the information provided by the electors when inputting their registered addresses, which led to the deviation. The office will correct it as soon as possible.
 
The office is also following up on the cases of the two other electors. According to its record, the two electors had used the address mentioned in the news report as their registered address since they registered as electors in 1995.
 
Electoral mails sent to the two electors during the previous elections have never been returned undelivered. Also, no complaint on the registered address concerned was received during the last District Council Election.
 
As the office does not have the two electors’ contact information other than their registered address, it will issue inquiry letters to them in accordance with the electoral legislation.
 
If they do not report their updated registered address by the statutory deadline for updating registration particulars next year, their names will be deleted from the register of electors.