Two men stood trial yesterday accused of giving false information when they registered to vote before the district council elections last November.
Company proprietor Lui Sze-kwok, 41, and salesman Ching Tak-ho, 30, pleaded not guilty in Kowloon City Court.
They each face a charge of knowingly making a false statement in a request to change their personal particulars on the voters' register, and a second charge of recklessly making an incorrect statement.
The two are accused of telling the Registration and Electoral Office that they lived in the King's Park area, when in fact Ching lived in Tseung Kwan O and Lui in Sha Tin. As a result, both were registered as voters in the King's Park constituency.
Opening the case, senior public prosecutor Jones Tsui Wo-chung said the Independent Commission Against Corruption had received complaints about people giving false addresses on their voter registration forms. One of those addresses was Room 2, 2/F, Foo Tat Building, 50 Soy Street.
An ICAC investigation revealed that the defendants, along with 10 others, had used this as their residential address on their voter registration forms, he said.