{"id":40485,"date":"2014-06-23T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=40485 "},"modified":"2014-06-23T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T22:25:00","slug":"40485-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=40485","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong voters embrace unofficial poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News<\/p>

Occupy Central co-organisers announce the number of votes twenty-six hours after their unofficial referendum began in Hong Kong on 21 June, 2014<\/p>

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Organisers from the Occupy Central movement said the number of votes cast exceeded their expectations<\/p>

Despite what organisers called the biggest cyber attack in Hong Kong’s history, hundreds of thousands of people have been able to voice their opinion in an unofficial pro-democracy referendum that started on Friday.<\/p>

As of 21:00 local time (14:00GMT) on Sunday, 689,000 ballots had been cast in the city-wide vote organised by the Occupy Central movement.<\/p>

The high turnout has far exceeded expectations. Organisers said they would have been happy with at least 100,000 votes.<\/p>

The actual voting, both online and in person at 15 polling stations scattered across Hong Kong, was overseen by Robert Chung, an experienced pollster from the University of Hong Kong.<\/p>

He told me the system had originally been designed to handle a maximum of 800,000 votes.<\/p>

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