THE electoral authorities were yesterday urged to review vote-counting procedures to improve fairness and openness.
Former legislator Tam Yiu-chung, vice-chairman of the pro-China Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, said there were many loopholes in the counting procedures.
'The procedure constitutes a very important part of the whole election. We would like to make some recommendations which might help improve the counting procedures,' he told the Boundary and Election Commission.
Mr Tam lost to the Democratic Party's Fred Li Wah-ming by 30,133 votes to 29,009 in the September Legco elections.
The first count had given Mr Tam 1,000 votes too many.
Democratic Alliance member Kwok Bit-chun, a counting agent since 1982, said it was difficult to supervise the counting process.