Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman Barnabas Fung today said he was satisfied with the arrangements at the polling stations of the Legislative Council General Election.

Mr Fung made the remarks after visiting a number of ordinary and dedicated polling stations on the election day.

He noted that as at 4.30pm today, 940,327 Geographical Constituency electors had cast their votes, bringing the accumulative total turnout rate to 21.02%.

A total of 1,353 Election Committee Constituency electors and 47,339 Functional Constituency voters cast their votes, bringing the accumulative total turnout rate to 93.44% and 21.63%.

Mr Fung also updated reporters that the polling hours at three more polling stations were extended, apart from those that were announced by the commission earlier in the afternoon.

He explained that the operation of the Electronic Poll Register had been temporarily suspended at these three stations.

The polling station at Tsing Yi Trade Association Primary School had a network connection problem. The one at Kowloon Technical School encountered a power failure, while the Buddhist Lim Kim Tian Memorial Primary School polling station had to reboot the machine.

“All the suspensions were within about 10 minutes. In accordance with established practice, the respective 10 minutes or so will be added back to the polling time of the respective stations at 10.30pm,” Mr Fung said.