New | Cyberattack threatens to derail Hong Kong’s unofficial vote on universal suffrage

Distributed denial-of-service attacks disrupt popvote.hk website but organisers say they will hold physical ballot to measure support for one man, one vote

Occupy Central plans to rally protesters to blockade Central district if the government does not come up with a satisfactory plan to implement universal suffrage for the election of the chief executive in 2017. Photo: Dickson Lee

A cyberattack on a website organised to measure support for universal suffrage threatens to derail an unofficial referendum on democratic reform, a founder of Occupy Central said on Tuesday.

The popvote.hk website was designed by the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University to gauge support for Occupy Central’s push for universal suffrage for the election of the chief executive in 2017.
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