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Sponge Bob wrote: »

Can someone tell me how many new posters registered just to vote in this poll. I think all votes by persons registering on or after the 03 Feb 2011 or with 0 posts if registered prior to then should be discarded.

I don't think so. Unless we know that a particular registrant is a multi-reg, then the vote cast by the account is as valid as any other, whether it has 50 posts or 50,000 and whether it was registered in 2001 or 2011.

There is a possible side-effect in this poll in that to a certain extent we want the numbers to be influenced by influxes of members from elsewhere. Provided that they're largely one person-one account affairs, then all they're doing is increasing the accuracy of the vote.

Let's say that the FF contingent have largely stayed away from boards due to whatever "agenda" they perceive to be here. And let's say that their haunt of choice is p.ie (just an example, I'm not making any comments about p.ie). If they were to sign up here en masse, or use dormant accounts to vote, then they're not invalid votes.

It is important that boards is the largest Irish community site in this regard. If people are coming from a FF-biased site to pump up the results, then it's fair to say that people are also coming from most of the other sites in order to make their voices heard. This has the effect of removing biase from the boards vote instead of skewing it. The more individuals who vote, regardless of their location or membership, the more accurate the poll becomes.

Questions (from an IT nerd perspective, just like to satisfy my curiosity). If I was to vote outside my constituency, what would happen, would it just remember the last constituency I vote in and disregard the rest? Also, I'm assuming voting isn't limited to those with a listed age on their profiles of 18 or above?

Really fascinating experiment, alright!

Naoise Ó Muirí (FG) is showing up at the top of the list for Dublin North Central. Same happening in Galway East to those with an Ó to start their surname.

I'm guessing the system doesn't recognise the fada and is putting them first because of the space that comes next?

Given the supposed advantage to being nearer the top of the candidate list, just thought I'd point it out.

yes i was talking about John Lyons from dublin north west

you are missing 4 candidates in Dublin Mid west full list available here

http://www.dublincountyreturningofficer.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=65

Donal J O'Regan (Independent) is not running. Paperwork issues apparently.

Jonathan Rainey is not a candidate in Cavan/Monaghan. He decided not to contest.

On Mobile it wont let me click on map when using 'Vodafone Live'.

If I use Opera it works but wont let me submit as it says my Username or Password are incorrect even though they are not :-(

darragh16 wrote: »

Dublin SW, Donal O'Riordan is listed but isn't running here.

Yeah, was just about to post this. It seems he's running in Cork SW.

maguinek wrote: »

When two candidates are elected in the same count shouldn't their surpluses be distributed seperatly at the same time ?
e.g in Dublin South West rabbitte and hayes are both elected in the first count but it looks like rabbitte's surplus is distributed in the second count (including some to hayes), then hayes' surplus is distributed in the third count with only 7 votes transfering and 29 non transferable votes.

Boards.ie is doing something in two stages that the returning officer would do in one. I'm not sure if it makes any difference.