Organizers pushed back voting till noon, citing the police operation which went overnight had led to delays in preparatory work. Hong Kong's opposition parties decided to hold a primary system to field down candidates with the best chance of winning in the Legco election on September 6, in the wake of a landslide victory in the district council elections last November. Chung stressed its institute was operating normally and the system would be running fine for the two-day primary, because the relevant computers were not at the site in question. A netizen had accused PORI of lying about destroying respondents' data six months after surveys are completed earlier this week. But Chung had denied such accusation and stressed that all data of interviewees had been deleted six months after the survey.

Source: The Standard July 11, 2020 04:18 UTC