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    #92
    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Ghost Estate


    2 missing candidates for Cork East I think. They are both CPPC or CCPC or something


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    #93
    Lynfo
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭Lynfo


    Longford/Westmeath

    David D'arcy (Ind) isn't showing as a candidate.

    http://twitter.com/davefordail


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    #94
    chandira
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭chandira


    Not a mistake per se, but it looks like the voting for Dublin South-East has been hijacked by Dylan Haskins' supporters- he's topping the polls. I have no issue with him, but it seems strange that he jumped from bottom of the list on Friday to top today.


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    #95
    Darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Darragh


    Hi Chandira, we've been scrutinising voting patterns, email addresses and new registrations closely and we're satisfied there's nothing dodgy going on save perhaps some good old fashioned campaigning...


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    #96
    Darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Darragh


    Hi all,

    Thank you so much for your emails and posts here to let us know about errors or omissions in the candidate list.

    We'll be updating today and I'll drop a post back here when it's done - your help is very much appreciated.

    Darragh


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    #97
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭testicle


    You have a candidate down as the Carlow/Kilkenny constituency, when he's actually Cavan/Monaghan - Jonathan Rainey.


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    #98
    Meabh1
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Meabh1


    Darragh wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Thank you so much for your emails and posts here to let us know about errors or omissions in the candidate list.

    We'll be updating today and I'll drop a post back here when it's done - your help is very much appreciated.

    Darragh


    Cllr John Foley is also running as an Independent Candidate
    in laois Offaly


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    #99
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    2011 Candidates (declared so far) as per RTE

    Eamon Blaney (Ind)
    Tommy Broughan (Lab)
    Terence Flanagan (FG)
    Brian Greene (SP)
    David Healy (GP)
    Sean Kenny (Lab)
    Michael Larkin (CSP)
    Larry O'Toole (SF)
    Averil Power (FF)

    http://newvision.ie/wordpress/candidates/eamonn-blaney-dublin-ne/

    He deserves to get elected for being a cool guy

    Edit - you can get a photo here http://www.eamonnblaney.com/wordpress/


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    #100
    Gael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Gael


    Fiona Irwin is the Green party candidate in Meath West and is not listed.

    Ruairí Holohan is the only Green Party candidate in Dublin North West. See official candidate list here: http://www.vote.greenparty.ie/candidates

    You can get a photo of the Louth Green Party candidate Mark Dearey here.

    You can get a photo of the Mayo Green Party candidate John Carey here.

    You can get a photo of the Meath Green Party candidate Seán Ó Buachalla here.


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    #101
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    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.

    Any chance of a heads up of what has happened since the poll opened Darragh....one would not want to be a conduit for <cough> mischief :)


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    #102
    Mike...
    Registered Users Posts: 956 ✭✭✭Mike...


    Michael Colreavy - Sligo / North Leitrim

    Please add the twitter Account

    http://twitter.com/MichaelColreavy

    and the following Image to this candidate


    Michael-Colreavy-Offical-Pic.jpg


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    #103
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    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.


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    #104
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Jeez Séamus, politics.ie is a zoo not a discussion forum . Easy known you are not a politics mod. :)

    If an 'influx' came in from that place this forum alone would need 20 moderators going 24/7 to maintain order.

    Irrespective of parity of opinion and whether boards wants to attract new members I would still like to know how many Pre Feb 3 0 post users have voted and how many new members have registered and voted irrespective of post count...and of course which candidates benefitted from that influx and whether there is a pattern which is in any way distortative ....eg FFers signing up to vote as you posited.


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    #105
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    We're content that while there may be some campaign-supporters-encouragement going on there doesnt seem to be a concerted effort to game the system. This could be because we are watching it like hawks and they dont want to accused of "ballot-stuffing" or it could be because at 7500 votes it would take a herculean effort to move the results. Far too many accounts would be needed with valid email addresses for each.

    This is part poll, part social experiment... I'm addicted to it :)

    Keep the error reports coming, they are hugely useful to us and we will correct things as fast as possible.

    DeV.


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    #106
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    SB... we're going to do some fun analysis along those sorts of lines, theres one on the voting patterns of new users since friday in the feedback thread for example :)

    DeV.


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    #107
    Quackles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Quackles


    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!


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    #108
    Darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Darragh


    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.

    Any chance of a heads up of what has happened since the poll opened Darragh....one would not want to be a conduit for <cough> mischief :)

    We're monitoring this. When we're ready to make those details public, I will :)


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    #109
    Thomas_B
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Thomas_B


    Info for the Green candidate in Limerick City is wrong.

    It's Sheila CAHILL, not Kelly

    Website here (with links to twitter and facebook) and photos available here.


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    #110
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Darragh wrote: »
    We're monitoring this. When we're ready to make those details public, I will :)

    I will take your word and Devs word on it Darragh. Thank you for setting my mind at ease :)


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    #111
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    I will take your word and Devs word on it Darragh. Thank you for setting my mind at ease :)

    LOL :D

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRsf8Or_a39Vw6Ud2w2s_uPjxgiN88uwZRqMypHSgttlnXfltoy


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    #112
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Dublin North-West, John Lyons listed as Labour, profile says People Before Profit. Bit of a mix up somewhere?


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    #113
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    He's People Before Profit.


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    #114
    TheRedDevil10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭TheRedDevil10


    no he is defo labour


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    #115
    CU-Cme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭CU-Cme


    I am hoping to set up a website and link soon. Apologies for the delay but my party have been involved in a number of legal challenges regarding the registration of our name.

    I am having to run as an independent candidate but I am a member of Fis Nua and affiliated with them. We were officialy registered as a political party on 3rd February.

    Please find attached a photo of the party logo and of myself for your voting form.


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    #116
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,243 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I got a PM from someone who didn't have the "I've voted in the GE Poll" icon. Should this be put on the left or maybe closer to the vote here button?
    CU-Cme wrote: »
    I am having to run as an independent candidate but I am a member of Fis Nua and affiliated with them. We were officialy registered as a political party on 3rd February.
    How come you have to run as an independent?

    If you (not the party) are registered as an independent, then I imagine that's the way you have to be on the poll.


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    #117
    Darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Darragh


    Folks,

    As far as I'm aware, we now have the majority of candidates on the site. For any remaining missing details, please use this thread:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...php?p=70529745

    Thank you very much for your help. It's appreciated.

    Darragh


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    #118
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In Galway west Éamon Ó Cuiv will show up on the ballot paper as Cuiv, Éamon Ó

    I will try to get a photo of some FF election material that shows this.


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    #119
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    TheRedDevil10 wrote: »
    no he is defo labour

    I know John personally. He is a candidate for People Before Profit. See here if you don't believe me.


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    #120
    davetherave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Is it possible you are getting two different people mixed up

    Labour - Dublin North West - John Lyons

    PBP - Dublin North Central - John Lyons


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    #121
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    Ah apologies, that's my fault. Dublin North Central's John is who I'm talking about. Assume that's what the initial mix up was about too.


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