I was slightly surprised to learn that some friends in Hong Kong couldn’t bring themselves to vote in last weekend’s special election.  The election was forced when five pro-democracy legislators resigned their seats in protest over the direction of a constitutional reform project being shepherded by the Beijing-supervised Hong Kong government.

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