The technical glitch that marred Hong Kong’s “patriots-only” District Council election in December and forced a switch to paper ballots was caused by a system overload, an investigation has found. Bernard Man, a member of the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) and the chair of the investigation team, said during a press conference last Friday that the investigation group identified “design issues” that caused computation time to increase as polling went along. The system was “eventually overloaded” at 7.37pm. The “design issues” were a result of changes made by the Registration and Electoral O…
