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online register of electors

  • 25-09-2010 6:11pm
    #1
    SparrowTown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭


    Is there anyway you can look at the ful register of electors online like in a library? All you can do at check the register is look at specific names/addresses?


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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    This what your looking for? http://www.checktheregister.ie/


  • #3
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    I would guess that having a list is against the Data Protection Act.

    It's bad enough getting unsolicited mail from marketers and flyer-droppers (and self-serving TDs who are allowed to use the register) let alone have a complete list that's publicly available.

    So check the register allows you to check if you yourself are on it, but nothing more.


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Each country an an electoral roll which is accessable at your local libary.
    Some counties have on online serch ability such as this one:
    * http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/libraries/Heritage%20and%20History/Dublin%20City%20Archives/Collections%20Post%201840/Pages/digitised_electoral_rolls.aspx
    * http://www.dublinheritage.ie/electoral/index.php

    Its a case of doing some net digging around.


  • #5
    SparrowTown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭SparrowTown


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    I would guess that having a list is against the Data Protection Act.

    It's bad enough getting unsolicited mail from marketers and flyer-droppers (and self-serving TDs who are allowed to use the register) let alone have a complete list that's publicly available.

    So check the register allows you to check if you yourself are on it, but nothing more.
    but as it is a public document in a library why is it not online. You can opt out from marketers on the register can't you


  • #6
    SparrowTown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭SparrowTown


    Biggins wrote: »
    Each country an an electoral roll which is accessable at your local libary.
    not online though


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  • #7
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    SparrowTown wrote: »
    not online though
    Maybe just as well.


  • #8
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Around 2004, it was in the news that register was out of date, dead people still on it, people on it two or three times and people registered in different areas. Having said that people trying to register in two or three constituencies was their own fault and messing up the lists.
    So Minister Dick Roche set about cleaning it up

    Council staff went about doing home visits and updating records. My landlord who worked for Fingal got me a job doing this in the evenings. Bit of a nixer for me :pac:. Though I earned feck all, I would never do it again!

    There are two lists.
    There is an offical list and will be used for votes. It goes against Data Protection for anyone else to use it. However, I would think members of the Oireachtas are allowed to use it, I don't know for sure.

    There is a second list and people are asked if they wish to be included on it. Companies can ask the local council for it, marketing and other uses. It's isn't online anywhere, you need to apply in writing to the local council for it.
    Not surprisingly, just about nobody was willing to join that list and I asked everyone on my home visits.
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    So check the register allows you to check if you yourself are on it, but nothing more.

    Correct
    Some county councils also have their list on their websites.
    But it goes against Data Protection for anyone to use it without consent.


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