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First-time voter double-registered

  • 19-05-2015 1:57pm
    #1
    Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭


    Please, no hilarious "Vote early vote often" responses.

    A young friend is registered in his hometown where a polling card has been delivered to his family house. But as a student in Dublin he registered to vote, and also has now a polling card there. He's worried that his vote will be invalidated somehow.

    I myself moved from Mayo to Laois earlier this year and filled out the appropriate forms and hassled with getting a Garda to sign it. That's the proper procedure. But what should my friend do? Turn up in Dublin and vote if he's not turned away, but head to Carlow if he is turned away? And how does he normalize things afterwards (to cancel one of the registrations)?

    The system is pretty badly broken if it allows dual registration like this. Anyway, sensible advice is sought.


Comments

  • #2
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    System is rubbish but it's not an issue. Plenty of people it seems are registered twice. See the thread here.

    Your friend can go to either polling station and vote there. It's one vote only - he can't go to the 2nd polling station and vote again as that's fraud. Probably could never detect it, given how broken a system is that registers you multiple times, but it's ethically irresponsible and makes a mockery of the voting process.


  • #3
    Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Oh yes, he has no intention of violating the ethics of democracy. He's just worried about being turned away because of the system's faults.


  • #4
    I swindled the NSA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭I swindled the NSA


    Always thought there was a case for allowing people who may be away from home for part of the year for work/study to register at two addresses (provided they can only actually vote once of course).

    The poor state off the electoral register does throw up a lot of other problems though. Not least the official figures for "turnout" being rendered completely meaningless.

    ADDS: I know someone who is registered twice AT THE SAME ADDRESS once using the Irish form of their name (which they never asked for) and once using the English form. This is what happens when candidates are allowed to make changes to the electoral register.


  • #5
    Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    I guess they only way you could vote wherever you were is if we had universal postal vote (like Oregon has), or an electronic system (based on PPS number) for identification.


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