{"id":1793,"date":"2014-06-24T02:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2014-06-24T02:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T02:25:23","slug":"hong-kong-voters-embrace-unofficial-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/hong-kong-voters-embrace-unofficial-poll","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong voters embrace unofficial poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By Juliana Liu<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News<\/p>\n<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>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/75732000\/jpg\/_75732767_hi022804678.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Organisers from the Occupy Central movement said the number of votes cast exceeded their expectations<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite what organisers called the biggest cyber attack in Hong Kong&#8217;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>\n<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>\n<p>The high turnout has far exceeded expectations. Organisers said they would have been happy with at least 100,000 votes.<\/p>\n<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>\n<p>He told me the system had originally been designed to handle a maximum of 800,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-china-blog-27970543\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juliana Liu Hong Kong correspondent,  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/hong-kong-voters-embrace-unofficial-poll\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,370],"tags":[317,90,477],"views":1164,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}