Election Committee Members are entitled to elect the National Peoples Congress representative for HK. I have exercised my voting right in representation of my voters, and I would like to share with you these observations.

1. The voting rule demands that each ballot would need to pick exactly 36 out of the 50 candidates. The design of this rule would rule out all democratic candidates from being elected. Minority voice would not have a seat.

2. The vote counting was completely opaque. Candidates are not allowed to observe the counting process, let alone challenging it. For Legco and District Council elections in HK, we went through the process of examining those problem votes (for example, the ink was filled out of the margin, the ballot was damaged, etc) in front of candidates or their agents. But there was no such thing for NPC election, and the interesting thing was no body intended to complain at all. Different culture ? I would say not.

3. The 36 winning seats were casted about 1100 to 861 votes. The interesting thing was that the 37th had about 856 casts, 5 short from the 36th, or less than 0.5% of the total 1200 votes. If it were elections in HK, a complete re-examination of the ballots could be warranted.

But I must say it was fun to learn about the culture of NPC elections, and the ballot counting process, let alone its transparency problem, was very efficient and fast.