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Spoiled votes

  • 26-02-2011 8:48pm
    #1
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭


    Did anyone see any funny ones today?

    Was down at the ould counting centre earlier. One had
    3 CANCERS OF IRELAND

    CHURCH

    GAA

    FF
    Another had 3, 8 and 9 only.


Comments

  • #2
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    One of the girls at work told me today she voted for the first time yesterday and it was obvious the excitement about having her say.

    I asked her who she voted for. She said she gave her number 1's to ....

    Yes, marked "1" next to all her preferences.

    I didn't have the heart to tell her she spoiled her vote.


  • #3
    Kimono-Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    im just back from a count centre where i noticed a few people put a tick next to the all the candidates except one or two....


    i don't think they realised they spoiled their vote.


  • #4
    loobylou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭loobylou


    Theres the old story of the ballot paper where a no.1 had been placed beside every candidates name.....
    and written at the bottom was "as promised".:)


  • #5
    roosh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭roosh


    Apparently a man in Cork North-Central shat on his ballot paper. Needless to say he soiled his vote.


  • #6
    roosh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭roosh


    On a serious note, there was one very imaginative person in Kerry south or north (I'm not sure which) who wrote IMF on their ballot paper.


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  • #7
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Talk of minimum 2000 plus spoiled votes in Wicklow.


  • #8
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    loobylou wrote: »
    Theres the old story of the ballot paper where a no.1 had been placed beside every candidates name.....
    and written at the bottom was "as promised".:)


    Classic.

    "I told ye all I'd give ye my Number One."

    Another dedicated spoiler put a different abusive epithet beside every candidate on a long list: "c@nt", "b@ll@x", "gobsh:te" and so on. Must have had quite a vocabulary of abusive terms.


  • #9
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    Declan Ganley boasting on tv last night about putting 0 next to each one, why did he not run himself if he wants to make it so publicly well known about lack of candidates?


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