Electoral Register

Carlos Orange

I'd like to update my address (moving from one county to another).

Do I need to send an RFA1 to my old county or a RFA3 to my new county?

ghostfacekilla

I got myself added to the supplementary register for the last referendum for my current address.
Do I have to do anything to ensure I can vote in the election to add to this?

Carlos Orange

Wouldn't think so but you can check online at https://www.checktheregister.ie

contrary_devil

@psinno I hope you don't mind me jumping on your thread to ask a question related to the Electoral Register.

On the register I have indicated that I do not want my registration details to be available for non-statutory uses yet I am receiving pamphlets from politicians with my name and address typed on them. I can only assume my details were taken from the register, I find this a lazy way of seeking my vote as I have never before had a candidate call canvassing and not even their campaign workers call.
Is this a statutory use of the register?

Godge

contrary_devil wrote: »

@psinno I hope you don't mind me jumping on your thread to ask a question related to the Electoral Register.

On the register I have indicated that I do not want my registration details to be available for non-statutory uses yet I am receiving pamphlets from politicians with my name and address typed on them. I can only assume my details were taken from the register, I find this a lazy way of seeking my vote as I have never before had a candidate call canvassing and not even their campaign workers call.
Is this a statutory use of the register?

Yes, because it is in connection with an election.

The non-statutory use of the register would be a marketing company writing to you offering you insurance or broadband or something like that.

You also need to do the sums. Take Dublin West, the electorate in 2014 was 63,521.

21 days of an election campaign means you have to meet 3,000 voters per day. a 15-hour day means you have to meet 200 voters per hour, which is one voter every 18 seconds. It is probably one voter every ten seconds in a five-seater constituency.

Why do people expect to meet every politician in a campaign?

Jayop

Is the register playing silly buggers? I've just checked it several times using eircode and without eircode for myself and my wife and neither are on it despite having been at this address for over ten years and having voted in every election since.

Anyone else having problems??

PhoenixParker

I had to leave out the letter part of my house number to find myself on the register, so instead of (for instance) 5A it had to be 5.
The record that came up included the letter part.

Mis-spellings etc. can throw it too.

Jayop

PhoenixParker wrote: »

I had to leave out the letter part of my house number to find myself on the register, so instead of (for instance) 5A it had to be 5.
The record that came up included the letter part.

Mis-spellings etc. can throw it too.

It was a misspelling. I spell my surname as one word but they have it split in two.