Two polling cards

Triangla

A spin on the old question of voting twice.

I am in two registers. One at home, one in Dublin.

I registered at home about 2 years ago and have voted there since. I'm stuck in Dublin for the weekend.

If I vote in just in Dublin, I'm not voting twice or not misrepresenting myself.

Is this allowed?

Coillte_Bhoy

Triangla wrote: »

A spin on the old question of voting twice.

I am in two registers. One at home, one in Dublin.

I registered at home about 2 years ago and have voted there since. I'm stuck in Dublin for the weekend.

If I vote in just in Dublin, I'm not voting twice or not misrepresenting myself.

Is this allowed?

If you only vote in Dublin how could you be voting twice???

Triangla

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

If you only vote in Dublin how could you be voting twice???

Is it OK to be on two registers if you only vote in one.

schemingbohemia

Did you not notify your "home" local authority which register you were de-listing from when you asked to be included on the register there? The form (from memory) stipulates you need to give your previous address. Having said all that, once you only vote once you should be fine.

Raphael

It is completely legal to be on the register in two places.

Triangla

schemingbohemia wrote: »

Did you not notify your "home" local authority which register you were de-listing from when you asked to be included on the register there? The form (from memory) stipulates you need to give your previous address. Having said all that, once you only vote once you should be fine.

Yes. Listed full details when I filled in the form.

I've moved twice (to different cities in differing provinces) and filled in all of the correct paper work comprehensively since then.

Obviously whoever processes it doesn't do what they should be doing and remove me from the prior register.

Vojera

Same here. I've asked to be removed from the register in Donegal three times now but I still got a polling card to my mother's house this week as well as the one to my home in Dublin.

I've even been called for jury duty in Donegal by virtue of being on the register there and they had no record of me ever requesting to be de-listed, despite the fact that I filled in the form correctly and asked to be removed again after the general election. I made another request after that but obviously it hasn't gone anywhere.

schemingbohemia

I wonder if anyone has compared the census results with the numbers on the electoral register?

Presumably census figures are used by the electoral commission rather than the electoral register? Is there a reason why local authorities seems to be so poor at de-registering people?

Fred Swanson

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