Kowloon City Magistracy has sentenced three restaurant workers to two to four months’ jail for their roles in vote-rigging in the 2011 Yau Tsim Mong District Council Election (King's Park Constituency), the Independent Commission Against Corruption announced today.

They are Tai Hoi-lung, Chan Sun-hui, and Yeung Pui-kwan.

Magistrate Cherry Hui said Yeung played a pivotal role in the vote-rigging by letting others use her address to register as electors.

On July 16, 2011, Tai, Chan and Chan Siu-kwan, who was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in August this year, submitted to the Registration & Electoral Office their applications for registering as electors at the District Council Election.

In their applications, the trio stated that a flat in Fa Yuen Street, Mongkok, was their only or principal residential address.

ICAC enquiries revealed that Yeung lived in the flat with her husband and another couple, while the trio had never resided there.

Under caution, Yeung admitted that the trio, who were her colleagues, had never resided at the flat. She also admitted that one of them asked for her permission to use the address for voter registration and she agreed.

Examination of the marked copies of the register confirmed that on the polling day on November 6, 2011, the trio voted in the election after having given the electoral officer information that they knew to be materially false or misleading.