Thursdays Voting

SteelyDanJalapeno

As per usual,

The students are gettin shafted, there goes 100,000 votes.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Saila

the ones in judges college

Oranage2

Don't people sign on a Thursday so its adding a potential 400 thousand.

Alter-Ego

Saila wrote: »

the ones in judges college

If you're a student living away from home and you have classes on Friday(or if you're planning on heading to coppers/fibber/diceys etc.. on Thursday night to get your hole) you can't get back to the shticks to vote.

Cill Dara Abu

TiltedBrain wrote: »

As per usual,

The students are gettin shafted, there goes 100,000 votes.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Whats on Thursday that "students" can't vote, polling stations are open from 10am until 10pm, does this interfere with you're drinking time?

"Students" in this country have an awful sense of entitlement, tax-payers are already paying for most "students" to attend college!

Bring back fees!!!

Cill Dara Abu

Oranage2 wrote: »

Don't people sign on a Thursday so its adding a potential 400 thousand.

Yeah because it takes 12 hours to sign on :rolleyes:

SteelyDanJalapeno

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Whats on Thursday that "students" can't vote, polling stations are open from 10am until 10pm, does this interfere with you're drinking time?

"Students" in this country have an awful sense of entitlement, tax-payers are already paying for most "students" to attend college!

Bring back fees!!!

No, but most cant travel hundreds of miles to vote and be in college at the same time, or be there for the mornin

robinph

Sounds like they should have updated where they are registered to vote to where they are actually living then.

EverEvolving

I left it too late to change my address so am wondering if it's worth driving from Galway to Sligo to vote, €30 on petrol but Mum will have the dinner ready, but then it's 5 hours driving for something I'm not that overly fussed about anyway. The ones I really don't want in don't seems to have a fiddlers chance anyway.

pconn062

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Whats on Thursday that "students" can't vote, polling stations are open from 10am until 10pm, does this interfere with you're drinking time?

"Students" in this country have an awful sense of entitlement, tax-payers are already paying for most "students" to attend college!

Bring back fees!!!

I kinda hope you trolling even if it is a pretty poor effort, but if you not then this is one of the stupidest generalised comments I have read in a long time.

Oranage2

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Yeah because it takes 12 hours to sign on :rolleyes:

Well its more likely the unemployed stopping off and voting if they're going off to spend their money in the betting shop or pub. pErhaps troll somewhere else.

My name is URL

I don't get this argument at all. If you live away from 'home' then why is it that you're registered to vote only where 'home' is, and not where you actually reside?

westendgirlie

EverEvolving wrote: »

I left it too late to change my address so am wondering if it's worth driving from Galway to Sligo to vote, €30 on petrol but Mum will have the dinner ready, but then it's 5 hours driving for something I'm not that overly fussed about anyway. The ones I really don't want in don't seems to have a fiddlers chance anyway.

5 hours???? Has Galway moved?

LoopyL

Students can use Postal Voting.

Postal Voting: If you are studying full time at an educational institution in Ireland, which is away from your home address where you are registered

from here: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/government_in_ireland/elections_and_referenda/voting/registering_to_vote.html

Alter-Ego

My name is URL wrote: »

I don't get this argument at all. If you live away from 'home' then why is it that you're registered to vote only where 'home' is, and not where you actually reside?

Personally, I thought the voting would take place on a Friday. Doesn't it usually?

Now I have to choose between drunken sluts and democracy.

SteelyDanJalapeno

My name is URL wrote: »

I don't get this argument at all. If you live away from 'home' then why is it that you're registered to vote only where 'home' is, and not where you actually reside?

Majority of students live away from home 8 months of the year for say 4 years,

what if the voting was on a date where the majority of student were residing in their family home and had to commute to their college county for voting? should a student change their address 2 times a year for 4 years?

would it just be easier to hold voting and a Friday when the majority of students return to their family parishes, villages, towns and cities?

SteelyDanJalapeno

LoopyL wrote: »

Students can use Postal Voting.

Postal Voting: If you are studying full time at an educational institution in Ireland, which is away from your home address where you are registered

from here: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/government_in_ireland/elections_and_referenda/voting/registering_to_vote.html

I didnt know this, thanks

Guy:Incognito

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Majority of students live away from home 8 months of the year for say 4 years,

what if the voting was on a date where the majority of student were residing in their family home and had to commute to their college county for voting? should a student change their address 2 times a year for 4 years?

would it just be easier to hold voting and a Friday when the majority of students return to their family parishes, villages, towns and cities?

Would be easier still if students changed their voting address or used the postal voting as above.

SteelyDanJalapeno

I hope this postal voting is free.

Guy:Incognito

TiltedBrain wrote: »

I hope this postal voting is free.

Cant see it being any dearer than the travel home if the votign was on a friday.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Cant see it being any dearer than the travel home if the votign was on a friday.

I'd be going home anyway, :rolleyes:

as pointed out earlier.

gurramok

Why are students bothering to vote? They're going to emigrate anyway!

My name is URL

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Majority of students live away from home 8 months of the year for say 4 years,

what if the voting was on a date where the majority of student were residing in their family home and had to commute to their college county for voting? should a student change their address 2 times a year for 4 years?

would it just be easier to hold voting and a Friday when the majority of students return to their family parishes, villages, towns and cities?

That would actually make a lot more sense. I'm not sure why elections are held on a Thursday.. it seems like we're following the British convention of doing it that way. No idea what the reasoning behind it is.

SteelyDanJalapeno

My name is URL wrote: »

That would actually make a lot more sense. I'm not sure why elections are held on a Thursday.. it seems like we're following the British convention of doing it that way. No idea what the reasoning behind it is.

I think its a conspiracy,

They dont want students having any say.

_Beau_

TiltedBrain wrote: »

As per usual,

The students are gettin shafted, there goes 100,000 votes.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I agree and I think that students should speak out about it.

It's undemocratic.

Guy:Incognito

TiltedBrain wrote: »

I think its a conspiracy,

They dont want students having any say.

Maybe they just dont want lazy people having a say? The ones that give a crap will register themselves properly or use postal voting.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Maybe they just dont want lazy people having a say? The ones that give a crap will register themselves properly or use postal voting.

No, if that was the case they would choose Saturday, silly.

EverEvolving

westendgirlie wrote: »

5 hours???? Has Galway moved?

Well - I'll be coming back...

robinph

TiltedBrain wrote: »

No, if that was the case they would choose Saturday, silly.

Yeah, 'cos voting on a Saturday wouldn't inconvenience anyone?

There is a choice of 7 days for them to do voting on and each one of them will have someone complaining. It really makes no difference which day they happen on as students will not be turning out to vote on any day though.

mikemac

Every election, same threads

But this one is even worse as it doesn't matter where you vote, there is only one constituency [unless you're in Dublin West]

Laziness and procrastination are terrible habits, I'm the worst offender.
But there was close to a month from start of college to get sorted with a postal vote or vote where the college is

_Beau_

mikemac wrote: »

Every election, same threads

But this one is even worse as it doesn't matter where you vote, there is only one constituency [unless you're in Dublin West]

Laziness and procrastination are terrible habits, I'm the worst offender.
But there was close to a month from start of college to get sorted with a postal vote or vote where the college is

I see. I did not know that.

I take back what I said earlier so.

'Undemocratic'? Drama queenism.

Fly High

I don't think it should be on a Thursday either... And calling students lazy because they can't get home is ridiculous... I very rarely get home, it's expensive and time consuming when I could be studying/drinking...

How does having the voting on a Friday or Saturday put people out? surely it would help those who not only study away from home or indeed work away from home...

Yes the postal option is just... an option, if everyone was told they had to submit their vote by post I don't think public opinion would be too high...

hondasam

would student vote anyway?if they really want to then they will make the effort to vote.

Guy:Incognito

Louise~ wrote: »

I don't think it should be on a Thursday either... And calling students lazy because they can't get home is ridiculous....

Who said students are lazy because they cant get home? They are lazy because they dont register at the address they are stay and they dont register for postal voting.

Oranage2

hondasam wrote: »

would student vote anyway?if they really want to then they will make the effort to vote.

This.

Students crying cause they're being inconvenient for a day every 3 years or so.


People in 1916 died so we could vote and now students are moaning cause they have to take an hour bus journey.

Spoilt tiger cubs.

Fishooks12

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Whats on Thursday that "students" can't vote, polling stations are open from 10am until 10pm, does this interfere with you're drinking time?

"Students" in this country have an awful sense of entitlement, tax-payers are already paying for most "students" to attend college!

Bring back fees!!!

How narrow-minded


I'm a student working for free as part of co-op in Mayo and won't be able to vote unless I get the day off to go back home to Tipperary where I'm registered

People love taking pot-shots at students lately, would you prefer if we didn't bother going and just went straight onto the dole?

Fly High

So in order to vote during college I should register my address 8 different times? That's a great waste of time/paper/money and a great use of red tape... Also as I said postal voting is not ideal, it's not the easiest way to vote...

I'm just wondering why having it on Friday (where these problems would be eliminated) is a bad thing?

Guy:Incognito

Fishooks12 wrote: »

How narrow-minded


I'm a student working for free as part of co-op in Mayo and won't be able to vote unless I get the day off to go back home to Tipperary where I'm registered

People love taking pot-shots at students lately, would you prefer if we didn't bother going and just went straight onto the dole?

Why didnt you register where you are stayign or register for postal voting. The options are there, you chose not to use them. Moanign about peoples attitudes towards students wont change that.

Guy:Incognito

Louise~ wrote: »

So in order to vote during college I should register my address 8 different times? That's a great waste of time/paper/money and a great use of red tape... Also as I said postal voting is not ideal, it's not the easiest way to vote...

I'm just wondering why having it on Friday (where these problems would be eliminated) is a bad thing?

Why cant you use postal voting ? It being "not ideal" isnt really an answer.

Maybe all the candidates coudl come stand in your living room while you use a special stick made from 500 year old oak to tap the one you choose on the head.

Fishooks12

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why didnt you register where you are stayign or register for postal voting. The options are there, you chose not to use them. Moanign about peoples attitudes towards students wont change that.

I'm getting the day off to pay 50e to get on a train to come home and vote on Thursday. I didn't re-register because I thought I'd be finished at this stage but my other placement closer to home fell through

Son Of A Vidic

TiltedBrain wrote: »

As per usual,



The students are gettin shafted, there goes 100,000 votes.

Just turn it into a day long 'happy hour' and they'll have a record turn out.

Fly High

Oranage2 wrote: »

This.

Students crying cause they're being inconvenient for a day every 3 years or so.


People in 1916 died so we could vote and now students are moaning cause they have to take an hour bus journey.

Spoilt tiger cubs.

Your sweeping generalisations are just ridiculous, you have no idea how hard some students work to keep themselves in college, or indeed they sense of social responsibility they have, hence we are trying to vote... We are not the generation that sold our sovereignty to the IMF, and sold out what those men died for as you so dramatically put it...

I still don't see the problem with having it on a Friday...

Fishooks12

Louise~ wrote: »

So in order to vote during college I should register my address 8 different times? That's a great waste of time/paper/money and a great use of red tape... Also as I said postal voting is not ideal, it's not the easiest way to vote...

I'm just wondering why having it on Friday (where these problems would be eliminated) is a bad thing?

That wouldn't give certain people the chance to categorize all students as lazy good for nothing alcoholics :rolleyes:

robinph

Louise~ wrote: »

How does having the voting on a Friday or Saturday put people out? surely it would help those who not only study away from home or indeed work away from home...

In exactly the same way that having voting on a Thursday "puts people out", it's a day when they would usually be doing something else.

Just because a Friday or Saturday would work better for you doesn't mean it would for anyone else. The majority of people of voting age will be living and working from based at their "home" for Monday to Friday. The best way of ensuring that as many of them can turn out as possible is to have voting available for as many hours as possible on one of the midweek days when they are less likely to be traveling away for the weekend or something.

A few students that are registered in the wrong constituency are just an irrelevance.

Guy:Incognito

Louise~ wrote: »

I still don't see the problem with having it on a Friday...

and I dont see the problem with reregistering or using postal voting, so its seems everything in life doesnt suit everyone.

Fishooks12

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Just turn it into a day long 'happy hour' and they'll have a record turn out.

How witty

Out of curiosity, were you ever a student?

Aishae

its a mad idea:
what about - once you know there will be an upcoming election THEN register your away from home address.
there is still postal voting also

its not like students flatly cannot vote

Fly High

=robinph;75011046 The majority of people of voting age will be living and working from based at their "home" for Monday to Friday..

Yes, and could they then not vote? on the Friday?? It is 10 - 10... I'm sure you'd find 5 minutes...


I for one student will be voting, I'm going to make it happen.

It just doesn't seem logical to me that Thursday is preferable to Friday...

Fishooks12

robinph wrote: »

A few students that are registered in the wrong constituency are just an irrelevance.

Not really, take the general election last year, why would I re-register and vote in Limerick when I know I'll only be here for another six months?

Guy:Incognito

Louise~ wrote: »

Yes, and could they then not vote? on the Friday?? It is 10 - 10... I'm sure you'd find 5 minutes...

...

What about all the people that like to go to their mobile homes down the country for the weekend, what about all the people getting flights and boats to the UK for matches, what about people going to Munster/Leinster/Connaught away games, peopel going away on holidays/weekends away.

Theres always somone that cant make it. Voting is on thursdays, students know this, so they should make arrangements to go home on that day , reregister to vote or register for postal voting. If one of those opions isnt a runner for certain students, they are not trying hard enough.

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Not really, take the general election last year, why would I re-register and vote in Limerick when I know I'll only be here for another six months?

So you can vote.

Im sure theres plenty of people in rented accomodation that have to change their addresses on lots of things all the time.

Fishooks12

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

What about all the people that like to go to their mobile homes down the country for the weekend, what about all the people getting flights and boats to the UK for matches, what about people going to Munster/Leinster/Connaught away games, peopel going away on holidays/weekends away.

Theres always somone that cant make it. Voting is on thursdays, students know this, so they should make arrangements to go home on that day , reregister to vote or register for postal voting. If one of those opions isnt a runner for certain students, they are not trying hard enough.



So you can vote.

Im sure theres plenty of people in rented accomodation that have to change their addresses on lots of things all the time.

I see where your coming from but I still wouldn't see it as much of a problem to have the election on a Friday, I'll be voting either way though. Glad you made a decent argument without generalizing students as drunken wasters like some of the other posters have