The pan-democrat primary election mechanism for #LegCo2020 is being announced right now, with voting expected to take place on July 11 and 12. But there's a problem.
Au Nok-hin said today that he felt shame at the difficulties in mobilising everyone to establish polling stations
Polling stations could include private spaces, yellow shops or district councillors' offices. For example, before the March 2018 by-election, some polling stations were set up outdoors with a valid letter of no objection
Now, of course, this could violate the group gathering ban
Some councillors said that if their offices are used, they are concerned that the Home Affairs Department would see this as a violation of rules and would not allow them to claim expenses for that month. Some would still be willing, but sufficient equipment is another challenge.
To give an illustration of scale, the pan-democrats' threshold for a primary election in, for example, New Territories West, would be 48,000 voters, and for one polling station to handle 1,000 voters would already be considered excessive.
Au Nok-hin freely admits that finding polling stations is not easy and it's currently "the biggest challenge facing us."
That might be an eye-opener amid all the stories in the past few months about the difficulties in agreeing on a primary election format.
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