Voting Drill and Pre-registration for “6.22 Civil Referendum” - Mobile Application: “PopVote”Back
| June 12, 2014 | |||||||||
The Public Opinion Programme (POP) at The University of Hong Kong and the Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University are commissioned by the Secretariat of the “Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP)” to collect public opinion on Chief Executive election by means of a civil referendum. The motions of the civil referendum have been confirmed as follows:
Civil Referendum Motions
Motion 1 -- For CE Election 2017, I support OCLP to submit this proposal to the Government:
Motion 2 -- If the government proposal cannot satisfy international standards allowing genuine choices by electors, LegCo should veto it. My stance is:
Mock Motions
In order to let people get familiar with the e-voting interface, POP will open the mobile application platform for mock voting from June 13 to 18, with these two mock motions:
Motion 1 -- For the Budget of 2047, I hope to see the following colour used in the book cover:
Motion 2 -- If that Budget cannot satisfy the demands of the general public made known well in advance, LegCo should veto it. My stance is: Mock Voting and Pre-registration
Details of the “6.22 Civil Referendum” are now available online (https://www.popvote.hk), while the mobile application platform of the e-voting system will be open to the public for pre-registration and mock voting. People who have pre-registered successfully can skip the SMS verification process during real voting of the “6.22 Civil Referendum”, but they must use the same mobile application and identification information. Details of the activity are as follows:
Registration and voting procedures:
1. Download and open the mobile application
Notes:
1. Our website voting platform which is not a mobile application does not accept pre-registration and mock voting.
Other Matters
POP has been promoting civil referendum for more than 20 years. The Director of POP Robert Chung wrote in his submission to the government on May 2, 2014 captioned “Submissions on the Consultation Methods regarding Constitutional Developments in Hong Kong” (in Chinese):
“The beauty of democracy lies not in the system itself, but in its culture of mutual respect. When confronted with mega issues, a diversified society may never have any consensus. As a matter of fact, it may not need a consensus. If it can resolve the most pressing disputes rationally, by means of a system which allows the rotation of power and policies, it would already be very nice… On top of the usual methods of government consultation, especially after many rounds of discussions, the following methods of collecting and collating public opinions should be considered: (1) Deliberative polling and (2) civil referendums. Both methods have been developed by POP after accumulating many years of experience, much earlier than the ‘civil deliberation’ and ‘civil authorization’ concepts recently discussed in the community. I am most delighted to see the development of these concepts among non-government organizations, but government bodies should also make effort to understand and use them.”
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
