Lam sets date for legislative elections

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday that the semiautonomous Chinese territory’s legislative elections would take place on December 19, more than a year after they were postponed by authorities citing public health risks from the coronavirus pandemic. Lam also said that laws would be amended so that inciting voters not to vote or to cast blank or invalid votes would be made illegal, although voters themselves were free to boycott voting or cast votes as they wished.