just voted

chewy

i just voted, that my civic duty for a couple of years done then isn't ..:)

i was surprised on the mep voting card it had peoples occupation....

i noticed brendan price had environmentalist, animal conservationist... fair enough...

so if you didn't have any info on people you could sorta decide at the ballot box although the incumbents just had public representative... i notice mary lou occupation was peace negotiator ...?





ooh fancy new front page eh?

dathi1

just back myself.....I was going to spoil my council vote and then I seen some guy Independent biologist and wildlife promoter..so I gave him no 1....the rest do nothing for me...didnt cast my usual begrudging vote for the Pd or FF due to the support for Bush's war via Shannon.

And yes on the referendum of course ....more the reason why I bothered to vote in the first place.

EKRIUQ

On my pollong card for the council elections the independent had just a blank space where as the other party candidents had their part beside them

bbop

voted in galway
Europe:
1: Higgins
2: Harkin
3: O Neachtain

Local
1: Independant
2: FG
3: SF

REFERENDUM

No

villain_97

Doyle
McGuinnes
Cassels
White in the Euro's

FG
FG
Labour
FF
Independent
FG in the locals.I reckon FG will hold up well while FF do very badly

de5p0i1er

Voted this morning

County Council: FG Labour Sinn Fein Independent.

Europe: Harkin FG Labour Independent.

REFERENDUM: Yes.

daveirl

This post has been deleted.

Lenin

Is there a limit to the amount of prefs you can give? I gave 3 in European and local.....

AngelofFire

For local elections voted in SDCC tallaght south region

1.Caitriona Jones(Labour)
2.Marie Corr(Labour)
3.Elizabeth Davidson(Greenparty)
4.Mark Lutterell (Independent)
and a few more

For the euro elections voted in dublin region

1.Prionsias De Rossa(Labour)
2.Ivana Bacik(Labour)
3.Patricia McKenna(Green party)
4.Joe Higgins(Socialist party)
5.Gay Mitchell(Fine Gael)
and a few more.

"Cherish all children born of the nation" Padraig pearse 1916

I voted no.

daveirl

This post has been deleted.

genie

Went to vote after work and was told that there was a "D" after my name and therefore I wasn't allowed to vote in the referendum :mad: As I've voted in all referendums since turning 18 I asked why I wasn't allowed to vote this time. None of the three goons had a clue why. I feel pretty strongly about this referendum and was going to vote no so I'm pretty annoyed about it all. They also had a bible on the desk beside the electoral register. Is that allowed?

While I'm ranting I thought there was a ban on canvassing yesterday? Well, there was some prat driving around Boyle, Co Roscommon with a loud speaker. Couldn't understand a word he was saying but even so. There were also cars parked outside the polling station with posters/stickers in the windows. Thought they weren't allowed within 100 yards of a polling station...end of rant!!

Cork

Speaking to a group outside the polling station - all seemed to have voted Yes.

FF were the only group campagning in my area with regards to the referendum.

I voted FF & the Greens. I know the Green Party Canidate.

arcadegame2004

Voted at the fine hour of 07.50 a.m.

Local Elections:

---

7 preferences. All the FG candidates got my top 4 or so preferences and then the rest went to independents.



European Elections:

---

No.1 Preference to Avril Foyle FG
No.2 Preference to Mairead McGuiness FG


Referendum:

---

Yes

slartibardfast

Anybody do an exit poll?

I answered to quite a detailed one think it was a TV one, typically I forgot to ask what company it was for.

sixtysix

voted in clondalkin-there were queues to vote-never saw that before-suspect big sinn fein vote

seamus

Originally posted by genie
Went to vote after work and was told that there was a "D" after my name and therefore I wasn't allowed to vote in the referendum

Seriously? Uh...WTF?

Is this a registration issue does anyone know, or something sinister?? If you're on the register of electors, are over 18, and are an Irish citizen, you're entitled to vote in a referendum. If you're all three, then what they said is probably illegal.

bug

Local
1 SF
and preferences for independant candidates

European
independants

Referendum
Yes

parsi

Originally posted by genie
Went to vote after work and was told that there was a "D" after my name and therefore I wasn't allowed to vote in the referendum :mad: As I've voted in all referendums since turning 18 I asked why I wasn't allowed to vote this time. None of the three goons had a clue why. I feel pretty strongly about this referendum and was going to vote no so I'm pretty annoyed about it all. They also had a bible on the desk beside the electoral register. Is that allowed?

While I'm ranting I thought there was a ban on canvassing yesterday? Well, there was some prat driving around Boyle, Co Roscommon with a loud speaker. Couldn't understand a word he was saying but even so. There were also cars parked outside the polling station with posters/stickers in the windows. Thought they weren't allowed within 100 yards of a polling station...end of rant!!

The bible is there to swear your identity if a polling clerk or a personation agent disputes who you are. If you want you can dispense with the Bible nad !affirm" your identity. I did personation agent a few years ago and if you want you can ask a Guard to ask the presopective voter the question "are you Mr So and SO"...

EDIT:

From http://www.meath.ie/elections/register.html (google ireland unable to vote referendum d )

"British citizens may vote at Dáil, European and Local elections only and are denoted on the Register with a ‘D’ beside their name"

No ban on canvassing - the broadcast & print media observe a moratorium on reporting and you can't canvass within 100m of a polling station but that's it...

sceptre

You're not /all/ going to tell us which way you voted are you?

I voted. None of yer business for whom. Some time I might mention it but I'm not going to list it like a meek little lamb.

EKRIUQ

Originally posted by sceptre
You're not /all/ going to tell us which way you voted are you?

I voted. None of yer business for whom. Some time I might mention it but I'm not going to list it like a meek little lamb.

Well I would'ent say it if I voted for the greens either:D

LoneGunM@n

Originally posted by AngelofFire
For local elections voted in SDCC tallaght south region

1.Caitriona Jones(Labour)

Did she do any canvasing in your area? She never came near mine, so I found it hard to vote for her .... gave her 5th or something cause she was in secondary school with me!!

embee

Local

1. Labour
2. SF
3. Green

European.

1.SF
2.Green
3. Independent.

Referendum - No.

genie

The bible is there to swear your identity if a polling clerk or a personation agent disputes who you are. If you want you can dispense with the Bible nad !affirm" your identity. I did personation agent a few years ago and if you want you can ask a Guard to ask the presopective voter the question "are you Mr So and SO"...

You are asked to bring ID with you so unless you've pinched the ID, I don't see the need for having a bible there.

BTW I am a British citizen but I have been allowed to vote in referenda up to now, hence my confusion.

Thanks for clarifying anyway.

sceptre

Originally posted by TIPPTOP
Well I would'ent say it if I voted for the greens either:D

Fish much?

Victor

Originally posted by genie
BTW I am a British citizen but I have been allowed to vote in referenda up to now, hence my confusion.

Are you also a Irish citizen - in this context it would supercede your British citizenship?

I hear Pablo Escobar (famed, very dead, very Colombian, drug baron) was registered in Tallaght.

genie

Are you also a Irish citizen - in this context it would supercede your British citizenship?

No, I'm not an Irish citizen.

Victor

Originally posted by genie
No, I'm not an Irish citizen.

So you had, erm, previously voted illegally?

genie

It would seem so, now that I'm aware that I was never eligible to vote in Irish referenda. But I've never hidden the fact that I'm not an Irish citizen and I'm sure I'm not the only one who has slipped through the net.

I also had an uncle who received voting cards for years after he died despite the authorities being notified repeatedly that he was dead and that he be taken off the electoral register.

seamus

Originally posted by genie
I also had an uncle who received voting cards for years after he died despite the authorities being notified repeatedly that he was dead and that he be taken off the electoral register.

Ireland generally seems badly organised that way - no integration. My grandmother was receiving tax free allowance certs, voting registration notices and pension-related mail as late as 8 years after her death.

It would appear you have been voting illegally though.....I wonder is it possible to claim that past referenda were invalid because of illegal voting?

skipn_easy

A friend managed to get two votes for a while cos he was registered in two different places. They sent out two voting cards, its crazy to think that they don't do any adequate checks on that sort of thing.

RainyDay

Originally posted by skipn_easy
its crazy to think that they don't do any adequate checks on that sort of thing.

It's very difficult to do such checks without a unique identifying number (like the USA's social security number) for each person. How is the electoral register clerk in Dun Laoghaire supposed to know if the Mr Skipn Easy who is registering there the same Mr Skipn Easy already registered in Donegal, for example.

Pigman II

Originally posted by seamus
Ireland generally seems badly organised that way - no integration.

Never a truer word spoken.

0utshined

You are asked to bring ID with you so unless you've pinched the ID, I don't see the need for having a bible there

The problem is that a lot of people don't bring ID with them though and they need to be given a chance to vote. The bible is used for other things as well, like if someone has really bad eyesight or can't physically mark their ballot paper they have to swear or affirm that to allow someone else to mark the paper for them.

parsi

Originally posted by seamus

Ireland generally seems badly organised that way - no integration. My grandmother was receiving tax free allowance certs, voting registration notices and pension-related mail as late as 8 years after her death.

Some people call it poor integration - others think that too much centralisation of administrative records is the hallmark of an intrusive state - eg the US and their desire to know everything about inbound passengers..

Victor

Originally posted by parsi
Some people call it poor integration - others think that too much centralisation of administrative records is the hallmark of an intrusive state - eg the US and their desire to know everything about inbound passengers..

Flip side is a guy I know who was living in Finland and working in Russia, commuting daily. One morning a Finnish woman complained to the Russian border guard that he was taking too much time and that his customer service was very bad. His response was "This is not customer service. This is Control."