Ahead of the 2021 Legislative Council General Election tomorrow, Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman Barnabas Fung visited the polling stations at the Convention & Exhibition Centre and the Heung Yuen Wai Control Point today.

Mr Fung visited the Election Committee constituency polling station this morning and inspected staff making final preparations for tomorrow's polling arrangements.

He said as in the past electoral arrangement, electors can cast all their votes at the same polling station while the Election Committee constituency electors will be allocated to the Convention & Exhibition Centre polling station.

After visiting the polling station at the Heung Yuen Wai Control Point this afternoon, Mr Fung said it is the first time the city has set up polling stations at boundary control points for the Legislative Council General Election.

The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) thanked the Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Bureau for coordinating and making arrangements to set up polling stations at Heung Yuen Wai, Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau Spur Line control points, facilitating eligible geographical constituency and functional constituency electors who are now in the Mainland to return to Hong Kong to vote tomorrow.

In order to control the risk of spreading disease, the polling stations will adopt closed-loop management.

After polling hours, the polling stations will be turned into counting stations.

Except for electors who have been assigned to the boundary control point polling stations, candidates or their agents and electoral staff, entry to or exit from the polling stations will be prohibited and public observation of the counting process will not be arranged. But candidates or their agents can apply to enter the polling stations to observe the counting process.

Mr Fung said an online live broadcast of the counting process at these three counting stations will be arranged by the Registration & Electoral Office. The public can watch it in real time through Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) TV 32 and the Information Services Department website.

Given the remote location and closed-loop management of the three polling stations at boundary control points, the EAC has decided to allow these staff to vote at these polling stations. Other government officers on duty at the relevant boundary control points, such as staff of the Department of Health, the Immigration Department, the Police Force, the Customs & Excise Department, can also vote at these polling stations.

Mr Fung called on registered electors to vote tomorrow. He reminded electors who have yet to receive a poll card, that they should confirm their registration status and check the polling station to which they are allocated through the Online Voter Information Enquiry System or call 2891 1001.