On the eve of the election—6 December—Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) chairman Mr Justice David Lok inspected the Near-Boundary Polling Station at the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port to oversee last-minute rehearsals. The port, which processes up to 50,000 travellers daily, will double as a polling venue for voters transiting the world’s longest sea bridge.
EAC and Immigration Department technicians stress-tested voter-roll tablets, ballot-box seals and CCTV feeds while mock passengers timed the entire ‘cross-border plus vote’ sequence; the average process took eight minutes. Contingency plans include bilingual help-desks and manual backup rolls should 5G connectivity drop.
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The bridge station is expected to serve logistics drivers moving between Hong Kong’s Kwai Tsing terminals and factories in Zhongshan as well as Macau residents on shopping trips. By providing an en-route ballot, the government hopes to shore up turnout, which slumped to 30.2 percent in 2021.
From a mobility perspective, the drill illustrates how critical infrastructure—bridges, tunnels, ports—can be retrofitted for civic functions without hampering throughput. For global mobility managers, the precedent suggests future pop-up services (from customs pre-clearance to health screening) could be layered onto transport nodes, reducing employee downtime.
EAC officials confirmed that if heavy traffic causes queues to spill onto the concourse, a standby ‘express channel’ staffed by disciplined-services volunteers will divert purely transit passengers away from voting lines, ensuring border efficiency.
EAC and Immigration Department technicians stress-tested voter-roll tablets, ballot-box seals and CCTV feeds while mock passengers timed the entire ‘cross-border plus vote’ sequence; the average process took eight minutes. Contingency plans include bilingual help-desks and manual backup rolls should 5G connectivity drop.
The bridge station is expected to serve logistics drivers moving between Hong Kong’s Kwai Tsing terminals and factories in Zhongshan as well as Macau residents on shopping trips. By providing an en-route ballot, the government hopes to shore up turnout, which slumped to 30.2 percent in 2021.
From a mobility perspective, the drill illustrates how critical infrastructure—bridges, tunnels, ports—can be retrofitted for civic functions without hampering throughput. For global mobility managers, the precedent suggests future pop-up services (from customs pre-clearance to health screening) could be layered onto transport nodes, reducing employee downtime.
EAC officials confirmed that if heavy traffic causes queues to spill onto the concourse, a standby ‘express channel’ staffed by disciplined-services volunteers will divert purely transit passengers away from voting lines, ensuring border efficiency.
