Voting System

Egypt's draft constitution vague on specifics

3 Dec 2012

The draft constitution on which Egyptians will vote on December 15 is supposed to usher in the kind of democratic reform that demonstrators demanded nearly two years ago in protests that led to...

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Arts Development Council election system under review

17 Nov 2012

Individual artists excluded from voting for members of the Arts Development Council may gain the right to vote under changes proposed by the arts funding body.

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Asian-American voters get election papers in their own language in US

20 Oct 2012

Joshua Pajarillo stood outside Seafood City in Las Vegas, greeting fellow Filipinos in Tagalog and trying to get them to stop and fill out Clark County's new voter registration form.

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Legco voting system needs reviewing

24 Sep 2012

The saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" appears to be the guiding principle in our Legco elections. Since 1998, the proportional representation voting system has been hailed as a better...

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Race is on to crack down on vote fraud

14 Dec 2011

People who fail to report a change of address but still vote could be jailed under proposals to plug loopholes in the voter registration system.

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Public voting not double trouble

13 May 2010

Organisers believe a 100 per cent increase in public voting will not undermine the credibility of the Hong Kong Top Footballer Awards - also known as Hong Kong soccer's 'Oscars'.

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Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Judge gives government more time to devise prisoner voting system

The High Court judge who struck down a ban on prisoner voting gave the government a temporary reprieve yesterday, ruling that the landmark overhaul to voting rules could be delayed until October...

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Miss Asia software, voting system in spotlight

Votes cut 'because some cast many times'

Discrepancies between the voting results and outcome of the Miss Asia Pageant could have been caused by computer software problems or an...

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Democracy founders on illogic of voting systems

Democracy has over time become a lofty ideal few openly oppose. Even North Korea calls itself a democratic republic. Western countries think they have established the perfect model, and...

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Fair voting system

The analytical article headlined 'Predicting Legco election more than simple maths' (November 25) was an eye-opener.

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Exchange voting under fire again

Pearl Oriental Holdings' chairman Wong Kwan has criticised the stock exchange's new membership voting system, saying it remains 'unfair' and lacks transparency.

The stock exchange...

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Voting formula

It was always unlikely that the Government would be prepared to make changes to the three-tier voting system which was introduced in the first Special Administrative Region elections in May.

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