Project Plan for Legislative Council 2004 Election StudiesBack
Project LC04 is the sixth research project undertaken by the HKU Student Research Team. The project is organized by a group of HKU staff and students on a voluntary basis. Other than learning the basics of social research, we would also like to contribute useful data to the study of elections in Hong Kong. Researchers would work in pairs and monitor campaign activities at selected Legislative Council constituencies. All student researchers who complete the project successfully will receive a certificate. |
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A briefing session will be held in MW T3 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm on August 23, 2004 (Mon). On September 12, the Team will conduct election day observations and exit polls. The project will end within 1 week after the election. Herewith an outline of the tasks to be undertaken by the researchers |
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Task 1 |
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Monitoring campaign activities at selected polling areas of a specific LC geographical constituency. This includes visiting the polling area, taking photographs of campaign activities, banners, posters, billboards, collecting leaflets, talking to residents, recording people’s response, etc. Duration: 1st August - 11th September |
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Task 2 |
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Attending, observing and recording campaign forums held at specific places. This involves talking to candidates and participants before or after such forums, dropping field notes, etc. Duration: 1st August - 11th September |
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Task 3 |
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Conducting virtue election and on-site survey in campus. 4 to 5 polling stations will be set up. Participants may have to shift duty in the polling stations for one or two sessions. Hong Kong Island Constituency is chosen for the virtue election. Duration: 9/9 to 10/9, 11am - 5pm |
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Task 4 |
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Working on election day (12 Sep 04) to observe and record election-related activities, such as campaign activities with designated polling areas, talking to actual voters, dispatching invitation leaflets for on-line surveys, observing and recording vote count results. Duration: 12th September (whole voting period, but after you finish your
vote) |
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Task 5 |
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Putting all observations and field notes on-line at a project website accessible by all Team members. Everyone shares the observation of every other. Duration: Within one week after the election |
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The work load of the project is estimated to be about one working day per week before the election, and the whole of the Election Day. |
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| Core members of the Student Research Team will be assigned
to each constituency as Team Leader.
Hong Kong Island Constituency: Jay Kong Participants can contact their Team Leaders if there are any questions.
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