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Election Day of the week.

  • 28-11-2010 9:25am
    #1
    meglome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭


    The thread about about universities potentially closing on election day reminded me of just how angry I was at the 2007 general election being held on a Thursday. As far as I could see it was a ploy by FF to cut down on the anti-FF vote. Just going from memory wasn't it normally the case of elections being held on a Friday? Is there anything we can do to try to get the next election moved to a Saturday or Sunday?


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  • #2
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    meglome wrote: »
    The thread about about universities potentially closing on election day reminded me of just how angry I was at the 2007 general election being held on a Thursday. As far as I could see it was a ploy by FF to cut down on the anti-FF vote. Just going from memory wasn't it normally the case of elections being held on a Friday? Is there anything we can do to try to get the next election moved to a Saturday or Sunday?

    Does our President have a say on which day it's held ? Doubt it but a email campaign on Mary may help ?


  • #3
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Of course the day the vote is set is tactical. At this stage we should be holding the election over a Saturday and Sunday to give people the maximum chance to have a say given the monumental task the next government will have to deal with especially as our "current government" seem to be in the process of total capitulation to the ECB/IMF.

    We hear constant complaints about the diminishing number of people voting in this country but it is hardly surprising if you hold the election during the week when those in employment are trying to stay employed. When a lot of those in further education are based away from where they are registered to vote. As with a lot of services provided by the state it is not done to fit around the schedules of the people who are availing of the service but to the schedule of those delivering the service which is the wrong way to approach any kind of service delivery and one that would go the way of the dodo if it was a commercial service.


  • #4
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    gandalf wrote: »

    We hear constant complaints about the diminishing number of people voting in this country but it is hardly surprising if you hold the election during the week when those in employment are trying to stay employed.

    the polls open from 7am to 10pm, nobody can use their job as an excuse for not voting


  • #5
    meglome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    the groutch wrote: »
    the polls open from 7am to 10pm, nobody can use their job as an excuse for not voting

    There are a lot of people registered away from where they are working or in college.


  • #6
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    When I was a student it was announced in plenty of time

    If you want to get registered for postal vote, now is the time to do this. Do it tomorrow.

    Not ranting here a week before the election and claiming you are being denied your vote due to cute tactics having it midweek


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  • #7
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    feelingstressed wrote: »

    If you want to get registered for postal vote, now is the time to do this. Do it tomorrow.

    You should start a thread or place a link here showing how to do this , there would be alot of interest.


  • #8
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    the groutch wrote: »
    the polls open from 7am to 10pm, nobody can use their job as an excuse for not voting

    Really doesn't it depend on what their job is. If they are field based and they have to travel from Dublin down to Cork and do a full days work for example then they will be hard pressed to come back and vote.

    Apart from extending the voting to over a whole weekend we should also have a scheme of overseas voting for all eligible Irish citizens like most other civilised nations. My wife who is French and living here for the last 11 years can still vote in French elections.

    The state should be encouraging the majority of its stakeholders to participate in the democratic process not inhibiting their ability to do so which appears to have been the case and objective in the last number of general elections.


  • #9
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    mixednuts wrote: »
    You should start a thread or place a link here showing how to do this , there would be alot of interest.

    The sticky about registering to vote at the top of the forum links to a website that has info on how to apply for a postal vote.


  • #10
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,836 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    gandalf wrote: »
    Apart from extending the voting to over a whole weekend we should also have a scheme of overseas voting for all eligible Irish citizens like most other civilised nations. My wife who is French and living here for the last 11 years can still vote in French elections.

    The state should be encouraging the majority of its stakeholders to participate in the democratic process not inhibiting their ability to do so which appears to have been the case and objective in the last number of general elections.

    I 100% agree. This was discussed ad nauseum here


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