Hong Kong should shorten voting hours and allow electors living in mainland China to cast ballots, the city’s largest pro-Beijing party has proposed as part of efforts to “improve“ the city’s electoral system.It left the Legislative Council with just one member not professing to be from a pro-establishment grouping following a LegCo election last December.“The cases in legal procedure at the moment do not concern an purely internal selection.”Voter registrationThe DAB also proposed to have Hong Kong permanent residents automatically registered as voters, and said the government should scrap the requirement that voters have to “ordinarily reside in Hong Kong.”Last year, the Hong Kong government set up polling stations at the city’s borders with mainland China for residents who were not able to return to the city to vote due to strict Covid-19 travel restrictions.When asked why the party did not propose allowing overseas voting, Wong said that it was because Hong Kong’s laws were not applicable overseas, and that setting up mainland voting stations would be the first step.| Contact Us | Newsletter | Transparency & Annual ReportSupport press freedom & help us surpass 1,000 monthly Patrons: 100% independent, governed by an ethics code & not-for-profit, Hong Kong Free Press is #PressingOn with impartial, award-winning, frontline coverage."