Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman Justice Barnabas Fung has called on registered electors to exercise their civic rights and cast their votes in the 2016 Legislative Council General Election today.
Justice Fung made the appeal after visiting the polling station at Quarry Bay Community Hall this morning.
Under the 'one-person-two-votes' arrangement, of the 3.78 million registered geographical constituency electors, about 3.47 million can cast one vote each in their respective geographical constituency and the District Council (second) functional constituency.
About 230,000 electors of the 18 contested functional constituencies can vote in their respective traditional functional constituencies, he said.
The geographical constituency and District Council (second) functional constituency ballot papers will be pre-folded inward once along the dotted line by the polling staff at the ballot paper issuing desk before they are issued to electors.
Electors must use the chop provided by the polling stations to stamp the ballot papers with a 'tick' in the circle opposite the chosen candidate list, and fold the ballot papers inward once along the dotted line to conceal the mark and then put them into the ballot boxes, he added.
The geographical constituency ballot paper should be put in the blue ballot box, while the District Council (second) functional constituency ballot paper should be put in the white ballot box.
The ballot papers of the traditional functional constituencies should be put in the red ballot box.
Electors are reminded to bring their identity document to the designated polling station specified on their poll card. Those who have not yet received their poll cards can log in to the Online Voter Information Enquiry System to check or call the election hotline 2891 1001 for enquiries..
A total of 571 ordinary polling stations and 24 dedicated polling stations across Hong Kong are open today for electors to cast their votes.
The ordinary polling stations and the three dedicated polling stations set up at Police stations are open to electors from 7.30am to 10.30pm. For security reasons, the 21 dedicated polling stations set up in penal institutions are open from 9am to 4pm.
