A 40-year-old woman was today sentenced to three-months' jail by Kowloon City Magistracy for vote-rigging in the 2011 Yau Tsim Mong District Council Election.

The court heard that on July 16 last year she submitted her application for registration as an elector in the election, stating that a flat in a building at 27 Yin Chong Street was her only or principal residential address. She voted in the election on November 6 last year.

The owners and occupants of the address confirmed they did not know the woman, who actually lived in a public housing unit outside the constituency.

She has been released on bail, pending her appeal against the conviction.