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Voting

  • 10-02-2011 2:35pm
    #1
    Fey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭


    I am registered to vote, and had intended voting, but now I find that I'm going to be out of the country on polling day.

    Is there any way I can still vote?

    I believe that everyone should vote, even if it's just to spoil it to show disgust with all of our politicians.


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  • #2
    Ray Burkes Pension
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭Ray Burkes Pension


    Fey! wrote: »
    I am registered to vote, and had intended voting, but now I find that I'm going to be out of the country on polling day.

    Is there any way I can still vote?

    I believe that everyone should vote, even if it's just to spoil it to show disgust with all of our politicians.

    You have left too late for a postal vote (not many people qualify for one anyway) http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_to_ireland/introduction_to_the_irish_system/right_to_vote.html


  • #3
    simonj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭simonj


    I will too late as well, and apparently, a consul or ambassador even cannot sign the PV2 form for me,

    To get a postal vote I would need to:

    1) fly back to Ireland,
    2) get the form
    3) fill out the form,
    4) find a justice of the peace or oaths commissioner,
    5) Have them fill out their section of the form,
    6) send the form to my employer,
    7) Have him fill out his section,
    8) get it back in the post from him,
    9) submit the form to Galway,
    10) then wait for the ballot sheet to arrive in the post
    11) then fill out the ballot sheet
    12) and then post it back to Galway coco.

    And I pay taxes in Ireland!!!!

    Considering the time frame between the election announcement and Feb 25th this is what one could only describe as a bit short notice.

    One of the reasons I got involved with Amhran Nua was to help improver immigrant voting rights, because what we have right now is a joke.


  • #4
    Fey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    I don't qualify for a postal vote as I am out of the country on holiday, which was booked before the election was called.


  • #5
    telekon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    The americans have had a successful postal ballot system for years...mainly to facilitate the armed forces I would imagine.

    The simple fact is that FF would never let the people who were forced to leave the country in search of work have their god given right to take part in their own nation's democratic process.

    God forbid...that would be a disaster for the party.

    Party, party, party!!:mad:


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