Hong Kong's Potemkin Polls

Voters turn away dramatically from Beijing’s ‘patriotic’ candidates

Hong Kong’s 4.5 million eligible voters have shown what they thought of the legislative council election imposed on them by Beijing with at least 3 million of them staying home – a record 70 percent of voters spurning the “patriotic” candidates picked by the Communist Party.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam (above), asked in a press conference why so many memb…