Hong Kong's 'patriots only' local elections face poor turnout

Open this photo in gallery: A woman carries a child while she walks past an advertising board encouraging votes for the upcoming district council election in Hong Kong, December 4, 2023.TYRONE SIU/Reuters What if Hong Kong held an election and no one came? That's the question officials in the Chinese territory are facing this week, ahead of voting for district councils on Sunday under a new "patriots only" system which severely reduced the number of directly elected seats and placed the local bodies under tighter government control. At the last district council elections in November 2019, amid the largest anti-government…