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Getting Off The Electoral Register

  • 13-08-2009 11:50pm
    #1
    FionnMatthew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭


    So...

    I'm really just asking a question, and I've found it hilariously difficult to find the answer to it on my own, surfing through the many pages of badly designed government websites.

    Boards: Politics has a high quotient of intelligent people who are both savvy to the civic institutions of this country, and clued in to the law concerning them, so I figure this is the best place to pick some brains.

    I'm not really here to justify why anyone might want to know the answer.

    All I want to know is if there are provisions for getting taken off the electoral register. To voluntarily auto-disenfranchise.

    And if there aren't, I'm interested in whether there are workarounds, which achieve the same outcome.


Comments

  • #2
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Why dont you just make the same effort and vote.

    There is a system up north where by if you dont vote you loose it and have to re apply. I always thought that should apply down here

    Then TD's could look at the electrol cout and see who is worth helping and who is not. Like they do now but it would be shorter and easier.


  • #3
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    removing yourself from the electoral register and not voting is a valid option, a td not helping someone because they not on the register is not.


  • #4
    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    You are not forced to exercise the right to vote so it is not really an issue.

    The electoral register, in any case, is just a formality. Your right to vote derives from other things, eg. citizenship.


  • #5
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    I live in Limerick where we are particularly unfortunate in that we don't actually have any State protection from Criminals whatsoever.

    There is no way that any Limerick person could ever sit on a Jury with any reasonable expectation of being afforded protection from the State to ensure the safety of themselves and their Family.

    - For this reason many Limerick people sensibly avoid registering to vote.......


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