Confidence assured: Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman Justice Pang Kin-kee says there are sufficient legal provisions to safeguard the secrecy of voting in the upcoming Chief Executive election.

Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman Justice Pang Kin-kee says there are sufficient legal provisions to safeguard the secrecy of voting in the upcoming Chief Executive election.

He told the media today the commission will make rigorous arrangements to assure electors that they can cast their votes with confidence.

The laws provide that votes be cast by secret ballot, no number should be printed on a ballot paper, and no record should be made of the particular ballot paper issued to an elector. As such, no one should be worried that individual elector can be identified from the ballot papers they cast, he said.

If a ballot paper contains any writing or mark by which the elector can be identified, it will be invalid and not counted.