Ballot

HKRFU ballot fails to stop touts getting Sevens tickets

22 Mar 2013

The Hong Kong Rugby Football Union made 4,000 tickets available for sale via a public ballot this year. The union believed this method was the fairest way to distribute the tickets. Applicants had...

5:13AM

Ballot for buyers of second-hand HOS flats

19 Feb 2013

Lots were drawn on Monday to decide who will be eligible to buy second-hand Home Ownership Scheme flats without a premium. The Housing Authority's revised scheme will enable low- to middle-income...

5:11AM

Public faces luck-of-the-draw ballot for Hong Kong Sevens tickets

13 Dec 2012

Stung by widespread condemnation of online sales of Sevens tickets in recent years, a public ballot will be used to ensure everyone gets a "fair and equal chance" of getting one for next year's...

10:23AM

Canvassing materials should be in English and Chinese

29 Aug 2012

A pool of 460,000 votes should be a big draw for candidates in a hotly contested election. But our hopefuls in the September Legco polls apparently think otherwise. We are talking about the...

2:22AM

Democrats fret over ignorance on super seats

8 Aug 2012

The Democratic Party yesterday urged the government to raise awareness of the election for five new legislative 'super seats' next month after a party survey revealed a 'worrying' lack of...

11:11PM

Thousands queue to vote in mock election

24 Mar 2012

Thousands stood in long queues to cast ballots in yesterday's mock election for the city's new leader.

11:03AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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4:27AM

Simulated ballot gives everyone a say

Every adult permanent resident will have the chance to cast a vote for chief executive this Friday, in an attempt to influence the 1,193 people who will choose the city's next leader.

10:42AM

Scuttling the poll is not an option

To vote or not to vote, that is the vexed question for the 1,193 people tasked to pick Hong Kong's next leader on Sunday.

10:41AM

Wukan holds first free election

More than 6,000 people in restive Wukan - a Guangdong fishing community where villagers have been in a stand-off with authorities for months over dodgy land grabs - cast ballots yesterday for a...

6:27AM

Simulated voting not new to Hong Kong

Simulated voting may sound like a novel idea to many, but it has been tried with some success in Hong Kong before.

In 1993, Dr Robert Chung Ting-yiu from the University of Hong Kong...

4:01AM

Candidates harassed as voters go to polls

Beijing's district and county people's congress elections took place yesterday, with estimates of about nine million people casting votes, amid allegations of harassment of 'independent candidates...

12:14AM

ESF stung by costly ballot error

An administrative blunder has cost HK$90,000, wasted nearly one tonne of paper and left many red faces at the English Schools Foundation.

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