EAC Chairman examines rundown and training sessions for electoral personnel of 2025 Legislative Council General Election (with images)
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The following is released on behalf of the Electoral Affairs Commission:
The 2025 Legislative Council General Election (LCGE) will be hung on December 7 (Sunday). The Registration and Electoral Office (REO) has actually set up in the previous couple of weeks a variety of rundowns and training sessions for electoral personnel accountable for various tasks to boost their understanding of the ballot and counting treatments and numerous information. The Chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC), Mr Justice David Lok, checked 3 of these instructions and training sessions, which happened on October 27, the other day (November 18) and today (November 19) respectively, to see for himself the preparatory work by electoral personnel.
Today’s hands-on practice was developed for the electoral personnel accountable for counting responsibilities for practical constituencies (FCs) at the Central Counting Station (CCS) on the ballot day. The electronic counting system was presented for the very first time for the FCs in the 2025 LCGE, with the objective of guaranteeing that the election will be carried out freely, truthfully and relatively, while at the very same time using innovation to improve the counting effectiveness. Today’s practice, organized by the REO, mainly supplied the appropriate personnel with improved training and joint drills, covering hands-on practices on each action of the whole procedure from the arrival of tally boxes at the CCS to the conclusion of counting, along with the fallback contingency steps, to guarantee that the counting procedure will be performed in a precise and effective way.
When it comes to the other day, the REO performed a training session for the personnel accountable for releasing tally documents and counting tasks for geographical constituencies (GCs) at the typical polling-cum-counting stations, allowing them to acquaint themselves with providing tally documents utilizing the Electronic Poll Register System and its fallback mode, in addition to the manual counting procedure for GCs, consequently guaranteeing that they completely comprehend the plans of the polling-cum-counting stations.
The personnel taking part in the rundown on October 27 are generally accountable for counting responsibilities for the Election Committee constituency (ECC) on the ballot day. Agents from the REO informed the personnel on the counting workflow and the electronic counting system to be embraced for the ECC, followed by a presentation on the operation of the counting maker and the pertinent system to improve the personnel’s understanding of the counting tasks for that constituency.
Mr Justice Lok stated after the assessment today that the current instructions and series of training sessions might efficiently improve the personnel’s understanding of the pertinent workflow and system operations. He thanked the personnel completely for their effort and motivated them to continue to apply themselves to allow smooth ballot and depending on the ballot day.
EAC members Professor Daniel Shek and Mr Bernard Man, SC, likewise checked the rundown on October 27 and the hands-on practice today with Mr Justice Lok.
After the close of survey of the 2025 LCGE, a bulk of the Ordinary Polling Stations will be transformed into counting stations instantly for the counting of GC votes, while the tally boxes of all FCs and the ECC will be provided to the CCS at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre for counting with the electronic counting system. As the ballot and counting plans include several treatments, the REO will continue to organize more training sessions and simulation workouts for the electoral personnel to boost their co-ordination and reaction abilities for making a comprehensive and detailed preparation for the LCGE.