Voting Registry Form: Something missing?

Scráib

Howdy all,

I've been struck off the register at home since my parents told a council lad that I live in the schmoke now (well done Mam and Dad!).

Anyway now I have to re register. I've been here and downloaded the form to register to vote.

Now that I read the form I've been told to download it seems a bit... well, empty. There seems to be no mention of a Garda signature or requirement to provide any specific ID. Just a direction to fill out the form and send it in. It can't be that easy can it?

I've attached the form here if you want to see what I mean.

One more thing for the mods: In the sticky about registering the link to the oasis site gives a 404 error now.

GusherING

It is that easy... provided you complete it before November 25th.

If you only send the form in after then, you will be put on the 'supplementary voters register'. This still means you will be eligible to vote if an election is called next year, but you won't be on the ordinary register until 2012.

In order to stop voter fraud around election time, you need to visit a Garda station to prove your identity if you wish to join the supplementary register.

So get your act together now and save yourself the hassle.

slimjimmc

Yep, as GusherING has said that's all to it. That form is identical to the one I'm reading now after being shoved through my letter box a couple of weeks ago. You'll notice on the form that your making a legal declaration and falsifying any info is a criminal offence. Putting the full onus on you to tell the truth means they don't need to validate each person beforehand.

View

It really is that easy - that way you can get multiple ballots for yourself if you want.

The system is wide open to abuse and everyone knows it. There is no effort to make even the most basic of improvements to it - for instance, asking for your PPSN, so if you move home, you don't end up on the electoral register at multiple different addresses (due to forgetting to notify the registrar that you have left your old address).

But hey, we'd laugh at other countries if they were stupid enough to have a system like this...

Overheal

slimjimmc wrote: »

Yep, as GusherING has said that's all to it. That form is identical to the one I'm reading now after being shoved through my letter box a couple of weeks ago. You'll notice on the form that your making a legal declaration and falsifying any info is a criminal offence. Putting the full onus on you to tell the truth means they don't need to validate each person beforehand.

Thats got to be the worst attempt at humour I've ever heard.

Or a very sad reality.