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Electoral register

  • 08-10-2010 2:53pm
    #1
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭


    Is there any legal requirement for a person to be registered. Can a person de-register if they so desire?


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  • #2
    Bosco boy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Bosco boy


    No legal requirement and yes you can have yourself removed from the register


  • #3
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Where can you check the register online - or is it online at all?


  • #4
    Bosco boy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Bosco boy


    Haddockman wrote: »
    Is there any legal requirement for a person to be registered. Can a person de-register if they so desire?

    I don't think it's online, it can be checked at Garda stations and post offices afaik


  • #5
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    It is online. http://www.checktheregister.ie/


  • #6
    Juza1973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭Juza1973


    If in an household somebody does not want to be included in the Electoral register it is admissible not to include them?


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  • #7
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #8
    Five Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Five Lamps


    It is impossible to de-register unless you're transferring from one constituency to another, have died or have left the country.


  • #9
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #10
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,619 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    Do you mean that someone calls to your home to see who wants to be on the register?

    All I ever get is the form which I religiously fill out and post back though I believe that they are reluctant to remove people from the register merely because they fail to make a return. It could be different these days though I can imagine lots of calls to Joe complaining if they go to vote and find that they're not on the register.


  • #11
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #12
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    Just a quick question....I was away for a few years. I had returned back to the same house, but have since moved. I work for a government organisation, so my payslip details have followed me to my current address, however, I am no longer on the electoral register. I have to go through the whole registering process again......I really don't understand that if revenue can follow for property tax, surely the electoral register can't be a step too far...


  • #13
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #14
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    Seems like it's hard to do both! Strange!
    I will probably go all hell blazing filling out forms etc. and not do the final bit....am so busy, the voting right goes out the window.

    Am sure this has been asked before, but if you're sending a payslip to an address, is this not proof enough the person lives there?


  • #15
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,619 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    Apply to the courts? Do they not drop a flyer in the letterbox saying 'we called and please fill out this form to register'?

    I don't think registering to vote involves going to the courts, I just checked on www.checktheregister.ie for a relative of mine who lives in Co. Laois and it says that you can download form RFA1 and ask to be added to the draft register....

    http://www.checktheregister.ie/appforms/RFA1_English_Form.pdf


  • #16
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #17
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    What is the process in getting off it?!

    I haven't voted in years and will hopefully be out of the country in the next few.


  • #18
    Five Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Five Lamps


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    That's not correct.

    You don't need to apply to the courts at all. You use one of the forms on checktheregister.ie If after the register is prepared you can get on the supplementary register.
    Holsten wrote:
    What is the process in getting off it?!

    I haven't voted in years and will hopefully be out of the country in the next few.

    If you don't live in Ireland, you'll eventually fall of the register. There is no formal way of getting off it.


  • #19
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    What about the deletion section on this form?

    http://www.checktheregister.ie/appforms/RFA1_English_Form.pdf

    Can you not just fill in your details section 2 and have them removed?


  • #20
    Five Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Five Lamps


    Holsten wrote: »
    What about the deletion section on this form?

    http://www.checktheregister.ie/appforms/RFA1_English_Form.pdf

    Can you not just fill in your details section 2 and have them removed?

    You could do but it won't stop you being re-registered again. If the goal is to opt out of ever being on the register - say as a matter of principle - then there is no way doing this by filling out a single form.


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