The Registration and Electoral Office today (November 18) made the following statement to clarify online rumours about the design of ballot papers:
November 24 (Sunday) is the polling day of the District Council Ordinary Election. For every ballot paper issued on the polling day, there is an angled cut at the upper left corner on its front. This is to facilitate electors with visual impairments to insert their ballot papers into braille ballot paper templates correctly so that they can mark the ballot papers by themselves. The angled cut is not formed by polling staff deliberately to spoil the ballot paper, as online rumours have falsely claimed.
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