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Cheating at election votes

  • 07-05-2010 11:27am
    #1
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭


    My mother's friend (an Irish woman living in the UK) admitted to us that she cheated in the election yesterday. She went and used her vote in the morning to vote Lib Dem. In the evening when different people were working at the polling station, she went back and used her daughter's polling card (the daughter is away at university a short distance away and couldn't be arsed to go home to vote) to vote Lib Dem again. Now I wonder how many other people do this. I was tempted to use my absent sister's card to vote Conservative twice, but I just didn't dare!


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  • #2
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    "I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work"


  • #3
    TheZohanS
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    I normally get two polling cards here...one to my parents place and one to my own place...I'd say there are thousands of people in the same situation.


  • #4
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    landsleaving wrote: »
    "I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work"

    Cool story, bro


  • #5
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    I would never do that; you should be locked up for doing that.


  • #6
    DonJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    LOL, the fukking idiot wasted 2 votes :D


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  • #7
    NinjaTruncs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭NinjaTruncs


    TheZohan wrote: »
    I normally get two polling cards here...one to my parents place and one to my own place...I'd say there are thousands of people in the same situation.

    Yeah i was the same two polling cards, one to my place and one to my dads. I only used one though, can you get away with using both?

    4.3kWp South facing PV System. South Dublin



  • #8
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    Do you not have to show your passport or driving license as ID when you vote?


  • #9
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    DonJose wrote: »
    LOL, the fukking idiot wasted 2 votes :D
    Why? Because they didn't vote BNP?


  • #10
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    DonJose wrote: »
    LOL, the fukking idiot wasted 2 votes :D

    You obviously have no idea how democracy works.


  • #11
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    You obviously have no idea how democracy works.

    ...or doesn't work.


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  • #12
    DonJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    You obviously have no idea how democracy works.

    You obviously have no idea how After Hours works :D Anyway how the fukk is election fraud democratic :confused:


  • #13
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200707/r159769_583213.jpg


  • #14
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    DonJose wrote: »
    You obviously have no idea how After Hours works :D Anyway how the fukk is election fraud democratic :confused:

    Because in a democracy, some people are more equal than others.


  • #15
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Typical Lib Dem.

    Can't even commit minor crimes decisively without abject hand-wringing and doubt.


  • #16
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    landsleaving wrote: »
    "I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply doesn't work"
    That's more down to the general public being fucking morons than electoral fraud.


  • #17
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    well, I can safely say it's the same in Ireland.

    I got a polling card for the referendum last year, even though I shouldnt have since I'm a foreigner (and when I put my name on the electoral register, I never indicated I was anything but, so whatever happened was definitely not my fault)...Heard a lot of stories like that - people here getting two cards, people who shouldn't have voted did, etc.

    I wonder if one could contest the last general election here, based on that...


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