HONG KONG -- Security hawk John Lee, the only candidate cleared to run in Hong Kong's sixth chief executive poll, was officially designated the winner in a rubber-stamp vote on Sunday by a group of Chinese Communist Party loyalists.
Lee received 1,416 votes from Election Committee members in a secret ballot. Eight cast votes of "not support," four returned blank ballots and another 33 of the committee's 1,461 members failed to appear at the polling place.
