Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 61

Steps to be taken at polling station after close of poll

(1) As soon as practicable after the close of the poll at a polling  station,
the Presiding Officer must, in the presence of the persons, if any, who are
present within the polling station, take the following steps-

   (a)  seal each ballot box with a seal provided for that purpose or with any
        other device specified by the Chief Electoral Officer, so that a
        ballot paper or any other material cannot be introduced into or
        withdrawn from the ballot box after it is sealed; and

   (b)  make up into separate sealed packets-

        (i)    the un-issued ballot papers;

        (ii)   the unused ballot papers;

        (iii)  the spoilt ballot papers; and

        (iv)   the marked copies of the subsector final register.

(2) The Presiding Officer must then comply with section 69 in relation to the
ballot box, the sealed packets and the ballot paper  account.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that the ballot papers in a
sealed packet prepared under this section are not to be processed for the
purpose of the counting of votes. Accordingly, references in this Regulation
to ballot papers in relation to the counting of votes are to be construed as
not including those ballot papers.