5 more convicted of vote-rigging

August 28, 2012

Five more registered electors were today sentenced to two months’ jail by Kowloon City Magistracy for vote-rigging in the 2011 Yau Tsim Mong District Council Election.
 
The defendants each pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in corrupt conduct with respect to voting in an election.
 
Acting Principal Magistrate Peter Law said custodial sentences were appropriate as vote-rigging is a very serious offence.
 
The defendants submitted their voter registration as electors on July 16 last year. They stated a flat in Foo Tat Building, 50 Soy Street, Mong Kok, was their only or principal residential address.
 
The occupant of the address confirmed the flat had been used for his shoe trading business and that he did not know the defendants. They resided in Kowloon and the New Territories.
 
On polling day on November 6 they obtained ballot papers and voted in the election after having given to the electoral officer information that they knew to be materially false or misleading.
 
So far, 51 people have been prosecuted in relation to the 2011 Yau Tsim Mong District Council Election (King's Park Constituency).