Are you voting today?

vinnyfitz

Just wondering - how important are the elections to Boardsers?

de5p0i1er

I hate the Government thats why I'm voting to let the bastards know what I think of them.

Elessar

YES, YES, YES!!

I'm fed up of immigrants/refugees leaching off the government for free everything.

It has to stop.

Ronan|Raven

Dem immigrants stealing our money and our wimmin!

In response to the poll I have voted already today. Didnt vote for any parties however as imho they are all as bad as the other.

ravenhead

Originally posted by Ronan|Raven
Indeed its much better when its just the locals leeching off the government. :rolleyes:

Oh come on .....you have to agree that enough is enough!!! I mean yes the irish are in every country around the world but we're not leeching off of the locals -- no... we're contributing to the local economy - the way it should be here. Leave them come into the country - but for christs sake ... MAKE THEM WORK!!!

Stephen

I will be voting on my way home from work this evening. If you fill in all the boxes correctly but write "Bertie Ahern is a cunt" on the side of the ballot sheet is your vote spoiled?

Ronan|Raven

Believe it or not, not all irish who went abroad were the great fearless contributors everyone seems to think.

And besides most of the people coming into the country are here to work, yes there are the ones who are for nout more than to get easy citizenship/insert usual leeching reason here but let us not tar all with the one brush.

Dr. Loon

I'll try to vote. How do you spoil a vote?

Stephen

if you somehow **** it up, like giving two number 1's on it, etc.

Ronan|Raven

Or drawing humorous beards and horns on the photos of the candidates.

dudara

I'll travel home this evening (about 30 miles) to vote. I'll vote NO in the referendum, mainly because I think there hasn't been sufficient information about the topic under consideration. And as usual, I'll spoil my vote for the local/european elections.

Here's a question. Would there ever be a "None of the above" option issued on ballot papers? I mean, I didn't have any choice in the nominations of the candidates.

ravenhead

Originally posted by dudara
I'll travel home this evening (about 30 miles) to vote. I'll vote NO in the referendum, mainly because I think there hasn't been sufficient information about the topic under consideration. And as usual, I'll spoil my vote for the local/european elections.

Here's a question. Would there ever be a "None of the above" option issued on ballot papers? I mean, I didn't have any choice in the nominations of the candidates.

This would be a great idea -- there are nothing but muppets running in my area!!!

leeroybrown

How do you spoil a vote?

Any ballot paper that does not show a clear preference is a spoil. Any ballot paper that has been defaced or marked outside the area in which you indicate preference is a spoil.

Unfortunately, I won't be voting. I'm not on the register in my current place of residence (I didn't have time to arrange the supplemental register forms) and I won't be able to get to the polling station where I would normally vote.

Posted by dudara
Would there ever be a "None of the above" option issued on ballot papers?

While a RON (Re-Open Nominations) option might seem like an interesting idea it could cause no end of trouble in large scale elections. It is used in quite a few private / non-governmental electoral systems though.

I recently looked at a list of 12 candidates in an council electoral ward where I used to live. By the time I got to the bottom of the list I had eliminated 10 of them and was left with one candidate worth a vote and one candidate I knew nothing about. If I was going to vote there I would have ended up marking the first two and then working my way up from my lowest preference.

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by Ronan|Raven
Or drawing humorous beards and horns on the photos of the candidates.

This is what I shall be doing so.

zAbbo

damn nigerians, send em back where they come from

ravenhead

Originally posted by bazH
damn nigerians, send em back where they come from

Unless they're pulling their weight ... of course!!!

IgnatiusJRiley

Originally posted by ravenhead
Leave them come into the country - but for christs sake ... MAKE THEM WORK!!!

LET them work!!

ixoy

I've moved out of home but I'm going to go back to my roots, back from whence I came, to vote (which is a whole extra twenty five minutes away on the tain :eek:). I'm not informed on the Local Council elections and I have a reasonable idea who I want to vote for the European Parliament one. I intend to give the proverbial two fingers to the current administration which has blatantly refused to do anything for me and, as yet, has no plans to work on policies I have an interest in.

But my principle reason is to vote in the Constitutional Ammendment aka the Racist Referendum. Dey took ur jerbs!! Hmm...

ravenhead

Originally posted by IgnatiusJRiley
LET them work!!

& What's stopping them from working like the rest of us????

MarcusGarvey

Originally posted by ravenhead
& What's stopping them from working like the rest of us????

A lot of the time it's the government who are unreasonably slow to issue work permits and so they can't work.

IgnatiusJRiley

Originally posted by MarcusGarvey
A lot of the time it's the government who are unreasonably slow to issue work permits and so they can't work.

What he said

ravenhead

You mean to tell me so that every irish person that is working aboard is using a permit..... I think not...... If the government didn't make it so easy for people not to work they would have no other choice than to get up off of their arses & do it ... Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that they are all like that but there are quite a few that just come over here because they know that our government will house them, feed them & give them free medical care! How is that right -- If I have to pay for everything & I AM IRISH - then why should a foreigner be allowed to come into this country & leech?

ixoy

Originally posted by ravenhead
You mean to tell me so that every irish person that is working aboard is using a permit..... I think not...... If the government didn't make it so easy for people not to work they would have no other choice than to get up off of their arses & do it ... Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that they are all like that but there are quite a few that just come over here because they know that our government will house them, feed them & give them free medical care! How is that right -- If I have to pay for everything & I AM IRISH - then why should a foreigner be allowed to come into this country & leech?

So you're advocating that people work illegally? Huh? One of the reasons to work legally is to ensure that all the proper taxes due to the government - PAYE for example - get paid thus ensuring you contribute back to the government. If the permits aren't being issue then you need to assign blame to the government - not those people who cannot get them!
Also yes, there's going to be a few people abusing the system... but we could certainly never accuse any Irish people of ever abusing the social system could we? :rolleyes:

ravenhead

Originally posted by ixoy
So you're advocating that people work illegally? Huh? One of the reasons to work legally is to ensure that all the proper taxes due to the government - PAYE for example - get paid thus ensuring you contribute back to the government. If the permits aren't being issue then you need to assign blame to the government - not those people who cannot get them!
Also yes, there's going to be a few people abusing the system... but we could certainly never accuse any Irish people of ever abusing the social system could we? :rolleyes:

Of course irish people are abusing the system as well - the whole system is Fu@ked up! But allowing it to go on like it is at the moment is only going to make it worse.
& I have to say that yes - i don't have any problem with people working in foreign countries illegally, we've been doing it for years in the States & a lot of people have come home to ireland with the finanical security they would have have gotten over here & they are putting it back into the country ... so why not let these people that are coming over here work .... why not have a green card system???? that way the government are getting their allotment of taxes from the people that are sucessful in getting their permits & they are also not being stuck with social welfare bills & medical costs for people that are coming into the country, not working & not contriubuting to the economy...

Deadwing

Originally posted by Stephen
I will be voting on my way home from work this evening. If you fill in all the boxes correctly but write "Bertie Ahern is a cunt" on the side of the ballot sheet is your vote spoiled?

shit, im gonna do that

Sarky

For some reason I agreed to work a 17 hour night shift instead of going home to vote. I don't know what got into me...

K2

in some countries (belgium and australia for example) you can go to prison for not using your vote : methinks we would need to build a few more jails if that ever came into law here. I bet people would be up in arms if their vote was taken away from them if they failed to use it.

Why bother spoiling your vote, if you don't like any of the main parties vote for one of the many independants that are knocking around, or Dana for the hell of it:D

Sarky

Originally posted by K2
in some countries (belgium and australia for example) you can go to prison for not using your vote : methinks we would need to build a few more jails if that ever came into law here. I bet people would be up in arms if their vote was taken away from them if they failed to use it.

Actually, we'd probably just moan that we couldn't have done anything to stop it, and that the prison tv doesn't have Sky Sports.

Why bother spoiling your vote, if you don't like any of the main parties vote for one of the many independants that are knocking around, or Dana for the hell of it:D [/B]

And give her the power to form the Dana Youth movement, and lobby for the criminalisation of all fun and making mass compulsary? Not likely.

Agent Smith

i'll vote this evening,

who for, is an entirely diffrent question....



Joe...



oh, love the devil horns idea...

Gurgle

Me voting:

Referendum - No - The constitution is the only control we have over the government, I don't want to see any more pieces of it hacked off. I don't trust 'em.

Council elections - I'm only voting for people who aren't already on the council. The current councillors are a pack of lying cowboys.

Europe - I think I'll vote for the anti-paedophile guy, what was his name again ?

Stephen

Clifford T. Reid



he got some slagging from the comics at the cat laughs festival last weekend.

lodgepole

Most people don't seem to have any idea what the referendum is about. (in general, not talking about this thread).

I voted No because it's a typically Irish knee jerk reaction to a percieved problem. The thing with it is that it effects far more people than those who abuse it.

rymus

damn voting... you think I would've been told I'd been taken off the register? But no! I've been voting since I was 18 and when I turn up at the polling station today they say "err, youre not on the register". Barstewards! "you got a form in the post".. my ass. What form? WHAT FORM DAMNIT??? The most annoying thing is I didn't get to vote 'yes' to the referendum and vote against Fianna Fail. Rotten cats-ass licking stupid langers...

ok, rant over.

lodgepole

Originally posted by rymus
damn voting... you think I would've been told I'd been taken off the register? But no! I've been voting since I was 18 and when I turn up at the polling station today they say "err, youre not on the register". Barstewards! "you got a form in the post".. my ass. What form? WHAT FORM DAMNIT??? The most annoying thing is I didn't get to vote 'yes' to the referendum and vote against Fianna Fail. Rotten cats-ass licking stupid langers...

ok, rant over.

Did you not think something was up when you didn't recieve your voting card in the post?

rymus

Apparently it's not too uncommon not to get a card... at least thats what the ol' wagon in the franchise office said. But yes I did think it was odd but sadly too bloody late to do anything about it at that stage.

Mossy Monk

i'd like to vote but it is near impossible for me to get home to do so

SantaHoe

Ah... I dunno, it's a bit rainy to be going outside.
Sure one vote doesn't count anyway!

Stephen

Just to be clear on this:

If i cast my votes clearly and properly, but still have "BERTIE AHERN IS A CUNT" written on the ballot sheet, will my vote by spoiled and thus uncounted then?

SantaHoe

Your 1 measly vote doesn't really count anyway, so I wouldn't worry.

OfflerCrocGod

Originally posted by SantaHoe
Your 1 measly vote doesn't really count anyway, so I wouldn't worry.

Say the ignorant millions........

K2

Originally posted by Sarky
And give her the power to form the Dana Youth movement, and lobby for the criminalisation of all fun and making mass compulsary? Not likely.

I was being sarcastic, hence the

query

I always vote - JFK was elected by less than one vote in each precinct in the US - imagine how the world cou;d've been different

Mind you my mum and dad stay at home as their votes normlly cancel out each other!

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by query
JFK was elected by less than one vote in each precinct in the US

Less than 1 vote? What, were women's votes only worth half a vote back then or something?

SantaHoe

Originally posted by OfflerCrocGod
Say the ignorant millions........

Yeah, too true
We need to start an apathetic voters party... although I'm not sure if I'd be arsed joining

The other ignorant millions just show up to vote without thinking about it... that FF man was so nice when he called to the door, lots of eye-contact, he's definitly getting my vote.

I voted in an internet poll, that's about as much as my ignorant apathetic arse can manage, besides - the crappy government gives me something to moan about.

OfflerCrocGod

Originally posted by SantaHoe
Yeah, too true
We need to start an apathetic voters party... although I'm not sure if I'd be arsed joining

LegacyUser

Originally posted by Dr. Loon
I'll try to vote. How do you spoil a vote?

sigh, just smear it with excrement

daveirl

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Bard

Funny then how a polling card was sent out for some 5 year old non-national eastern european kid and another was sent out to a Dublin household for "Pablo Escobar" (who obviously didn't exist at that address) but one wasn't sent out for my brother, who lives in Dublin and will be 19 next month.

rymus

not only is it quite worrying dave.. it's also a huge pain in the ass.. Not being able to have my say will sting in the ol' mind for quite a while.

0utshined

Clifford T. Reid

I think there's a strong chance this guy will get elected. You have to admire his sensationalism.

For those of you who don't know him the byline on his posters was "Stop the paedophiles!"

sceptre

Originally posted by query
I always vote - JFK was elected by less than one vote in each precinct in the US - imagine how the world cou;d've been different

Er, no

http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/onevote.htm

If we ignore the cheating it's definitely not true, if we don't ignore the cheating we don't really know.

(why don't people check snopes before posting a "er, summat interesting fact to prove my point beyond a SHADOW of a doubt" rubbish point? - no offence intended to you personally query but plenty towards the point)