Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 59

Marking of ballot papers for or by incapacitated person

(1) The Presiding Officer may mark a ballot paper for an elector who is or
claims that he or she is unable to read or is incapacitated from voting due to
blindness or other physical cause. The Presiding Officer may do so only on the
application of such an elector.

(2) The Presiding Officer must mark the ballot paper for a person referred to
in subsection (1) in the presence of a polling officer and in the appropriate
manner specified in section 58 according to the choice of the elector. The
Presiding Officer must put the ballot paper into the ballot box, in the manner
described in section 57 in the presence of a polling officer, after marking
it.

(3) An elector who is blind or claims that he or she is blind may make use of
a template to mark the ballot paper if a template is provided for that purpose
at the polling station.