Spelling Mistake in Nomination paper

Diplomat

If a candidate has made a spelling mistake with regard to their address in the nomination paper submitted for the General Election, can be their papers be declared null and void.

I find it hard to believe that this could happen but someone has claimed that they know for a categorical fact that a nomination paper has been submitted with an incorrect spelling and that it could technically be declared null and void.

Anyone know what the rules are on this? Their point is that summons and search warrants have been thrown out for similar errors in the courts.

Thanks in advance for your opinions.

imme

All sounds very cloak & dagger OP:rolleyes:

If the name on the ballot paper is elected then that's who's elected.

Uncle Ben

Diplomat wrote: »

If a candidate has made a spelling mistake with regard to their address in the nomination paper submitted for the General Election, can be their papers be declared null and void.

I find it hard to believe that this could happen but someone has claimed that they know for a categorical fact that a nomination paper has been submitted with an incorrect spelling and that it could technically be declared null and void.

Anyone know what the rules are on this? Their point is that summons and search warrants have been thrown out for similar errors in the courts.

Thanks in advance for your opinions.

Ask Ivor, he knows everything about addresses:D

Diplomat

BrendanBurgess

Unlikely. Anyway, the Returning Officer must rule on the validity of the paper within one hour of receipt. So plenty of time to correct the spelling.

Brendan

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES
Candidates may nominate themselves and be nominated by a Dáil elector for the constituency. The latest date for nominating a person as a candidate is 12 noon on the seventh day after the issue of the writs. A candidate may have their photograph included on the ballot paper by providing a photograph in the specified format with their nomination. A candidate may also include party affiliation and a party emblem. If the candidate has no party affiliation they may describe themselves as "non-party" or leave the appropriate space blank.

Candidates at a Dáil election, not in possession of a certificate of political affiliation, must have their nomination papers assented to by 30 Dáil electors registered in the constituency. The 30 electors must assent to the nomination form at the principal offices of the local authority in the constituency concerned and they must produce specified photographic identification in order to assent to a nomination.

The returning officer must rule on the validity of a nomination paper within one hour of its presentation. They are required to object to the name of a candidate if it is not the name by which the candidate is commonly known, is misleading and likely to cause confusion, is unnecessarily long or contains a political reference. The returning officer is also required to object to the description of a candidate that is, in their opinion, incorrect, insufficient to identify the candidate or unnecessarily long.

The candidate or the returning officer may amend the particulars shown on the nomination paper. The returning officer may rule a nomination paper invalid only if it is not properly made out or signed.

Capt'n Midnight

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