The Kowloon City Magistracy has sentenced two cafe operators to two months' jail time for vote-rigging at the 2011 District Council Election, the Independent Commission Against Corruption said today.

Magistrate Ko Wai-hung said the offences undermined the credibility of Hong Kong's sound electoral system.

On July 16, 2011, the defendants submitted to the Registration & Electoral Office their applications for registration as electors and later voted at the election after giving information they knew to be materially false or misleading to the electoral officer.

The defendants stated that a flat in Hung Kwong Building, 2A-2P Tung Choi Street, Mongkok was their only or principal residential address, but they had never resided there.