RTHK Legislative Council Election – Timing System

Under Hong Kong election guildlines for public media, all candidates should have equal speech time.

This is a system to count the speech time of each candidate.

Each candidate (team) had a screeen with a time bar to show thier own remaining time to speech.

All candidate speech time were count in central unit and outputed to MC and control panel.

a team of timers were standing at back and once they saw particular timers start speech, they will press s button start to count.

I participated :

Legislative Council Election forum 2004

District Board Election Forum 2007

Legislative Council Election forum 2008

Legislative Council Election forum 2012

scope

write proposal to bid the tender

System design

Electronic deisgn

Software design (partner with developer)

production : arrange timers (HKBU students ), setup, montoring.

2004 Legislative forum in Studio – each candidate have a TV to check their time usage.

2004 Legislative forum in Studio – central control box to controil devcide for the timing system

2004 Legislative forum in Studio – control buttons. press to toggle the timing of candidate speech time

2004 Legislative forum in Studio – candidate on the stage

2004 Legislative forum in Studio – canidate stand

2004 Legislative forum – screen for MC and control panel

big TV in front of candidates

candidates stands

setting up equipment

Timers timing the candidates

control panel ; timer timing the candidates

Control Panel

MC Stand with show all the candidate time bar

Timers

control panel