Exposed: Pro-establishment supporters bussed elderly people to polling stations and directed them to vote in Hong Kong elections

Coaches and cars were out to ferry elderly voters to polling stations yesterday as speculation mounted that several candidates in the pro-Beijing camp had arranged free rides for elderly residents of homes for the aged and from rural villages. They were also allegedly told whom to back in the district council elections.

A South China Morning Post check found at least eight elderly residents of Kam Ma Home of Aged in Hung Hom taken in the same van in two rounds to the voting station in Hung Hom Municipal Services Building around 3 pm yesterday.

Incidents of voter-ferrying were also witnessed in Mei Foo North constituency and Pat Heung South in Yuen Long. In the latter district, cars arriving at the polling station at regular intervals to drop off voters, many of them elderly, was observed from 2.30 pm to 7 pm.
 

At the Hung Hom polling station, the senior citizens were escorted by two women who claimed to be “volunteers”. One man, who was stationed near the home, was seen holding what appeared to be a list of voters staying there and another was seen giving each elderly person their identity card before they entered the polling station.