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Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

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  • #92
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Voted Yes of course, was surprisingly busy at 8:15 this morning in my station....


  • #93
    Hococop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭Hococop


    banie01 wrote: »
    Voted yes.
    My worry is this poll will be skewed by the generally "liberal" leaning of many boards users.
    The RTE exit poll tonight will be interesting especially to compare it's projection with the final tallies.

    From discussing the topic with friends/family/colleagues, anyone expressing a no opinion has been conspicuously rare.
    I do worry that many are saying one thing while intending to vote another.
    It's hard to take and a hold a contrary opinion in the age of social media and I fear many may keeping their powder dry and will vote no.

    Saying that to alot of people, feels like social media make it out it will be a landslide for yes, I voted yes but I've a feeling the no vote will win as I think the older generation will be the biggest factor in it


  • #94
    kanadams123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭kanadams123


    My Brother lives in Galway and is coming home to Cork to vote this evening.
    He is trying to make it down before 10pm...he usually makes it down for about 9:45 when he usually comes home...and the polling station is less than 5mins away from our house.

    Do the polling stations HAVE to remain open untill 10pm SHARP...or could they close up 5mins before hand?!


  • #95
    NuMarvel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭NuMarvel


    Jasper79 wrote: »
    I voted yes this morning.

    The desk where you get the voting card though, one of they guys had a copy of the bible, facing out towards voters... thought was a bit strange and possibly not allowed ? ...

    It's so people can swear an oath if there's a question about their identity. You can make an affirmation as well, or presumably swear on another religious text. It's a bit like being sworn in on a jury.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/why-are-there-bibles-in-polling-stations-1.2222157


  • #96
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,261 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    jasonb wrote: »
    ted1 wrote: »
    It’s home to vote crowd I have an issue with. If they’ve being living outside Ireland before the 1st September then they are not eligible to vote

    I'm pretty certain you can vote if you left Ireland within the last 18 months. So that's November 25th 2016, not 1st September 2017...
    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    just out of my polling station were someone working there told a person they can't vote without a polling card

    Not true of course, you don't need a polling card, you can use ID instead.
    It’s 2017

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_to_ireland/introduction_to_the_irish_system/right_to_vote.html

    ********
    You must be at least 18 years of age on 15 February, the day the Register comes into force. You must also have been ordinarily resident in the State on 1 September in the year before the Register comes into force.
    ********


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  • #97
    jasonb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭jasonb


    kanadams123 wrote: »
    My Brother lives in Galway and is coming home to Cork to vote this evening.
    He is trying to make it down before 10pm...he usually makes it down for about 9:45 when he usually comes home...and the polling station is less than 5mins away from our house.

    Do the polling stations HAVE to remain open untill 10pm SHARP...or could they close up 5mins before hand?!

    Polling stations should stay open until 10, and once you're in the door you're allowed to vote, even if there's a queue inside the room and it's after 10 before you get to cast the actual vote...


  • #98
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,433 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

    The register is a joke, just out of my polling station were someone working there told a person they can't vote without a polling card

    Id be surprised if that happened, thats basic stuff for the staff, ID is perfectly sufficient.

    But if it did, ring the local returning officer and tell them this is happening. As someone who supervised polling stations for 15 years on and off, I can tell you denying someones vote without going to every length to establish their identity is the most serious thing that could happen. The presiding officer at the station could be personally liable in Court.


  • #99
    kanadams123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭kanadams123


    NuMarvel wrote: »
    The Journal did a piece on that yesterday. Long story short, there are still ways for online ads to appear. And online ads aren't subject to the moratorium; that only applies to media outlets like papers, TV, or radio stations.

    Yea i was wondering that..i have seen No adds on facebook this morning and just saw a yes add on boards.ie!
    Thanks for that link!


  • #100
    martyoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 872 ✭✭✭martyoo


    It will be interesting to see the actual results compared to the results here. Going to be optimistic and say 60% yes but it will probably be tighter than that.


  • #101
    sliabh 1956
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭sliabh 1956


    No


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  • #102
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    It was the presiding officer, I waited outside for the gentleman and told him he didn't need a polling card. But he was already on the phone to someone about it.

    If you don’t mind me asking, what polling station? I’d really like to phone the local franchise office.


  • #103
    theyoungchap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭theyoungchap


    Voting register should be linked to PPS Numbers anyway rather than a register. Or at least we should move that way. It couldn't be that hard to manage.
    It would also weed out the "home to vote" brigade who have not been based here for more than 18 months and are not entitled to vote.


  • #104
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,852 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    jasonb wrote: »
    Polling stations should stay open until 10, and once you're in the door you're allowed to vote, even if there's a queue inside the room and it's after 10 before you get to cast the actual vote...

    Fairly sure you can't vote once it strikes ten.


  • #105
    jasonb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭jasonb


    ted1 wrote: »
    It’s 2017

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_to_ireland/introduction_to_the_irish_system/right_to_vote.html

    ********
    You must be at least 18 years of age on 15 February, the day the Register comes into force. You must also have been ordinarily resident in the State on 1 September in the year before the Register comes into force.
    ********

    Interesting... There's a line further down that page that says...

    'f you leave your address but you plan to return there within 18 months, you can continue to be registered there, as long you do not register at any other address.'

    and an Irish Times article (https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/illegal-emigrant-voting-how-hometovote-could-backfire-1.3385321) says this...

    'Unlike more than 130 countries worldwide, Ireland has no system for citizens abroad to have a say in either elections or referendums. Under the 1992 Electoral Act, Irish citizens retain their right to vote for just 18 months after moving abroad, as long as they intend to return to Ireland within that timeframe.'


  • #106
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    The easiest, most certain Yes I've ever given.

    I'm so emotional all day, I just want it to be over and get the results now.


  • #107
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    ted1 wrote: »
    So spoil your vote.

    Why? Why bother travelling to spoil your vote?


  • #108
    Digs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭Digs


    YES!!

    A very emotional vote, walking my two daughters and my bump into that room along with a very supportive man who I’m proud to call my husband.


  • #109
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    I'm surprised people think it's an *easier* yes than the previous referendum but it's a yes all the same.


  • #110
    martyoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 872 ✭✭✭martyoo


    I'm surprised people think it's an *easier* yes than the previous referendum but it's a yes all the same.

    I certainly don't. It was a much harder decision to make than the marriage referendum.


  • #111
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,099 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Voted yes, but any poll on boards is going to be heavily skewed for yes.

    It's going to be very close, and fear that No will win.


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  • #112
    Wrongway1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Massive Yes from me!

    Few people here in my constituency who didn't engage over the weeks out of the woodwork on social media last night with vote No or very bizarre neutral posts so they'd be No too you'd reckon.

    Very fearful for my constituency but hope Dublin wins big to drag us up.


  • #113
    Nettle Soup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Nettle Soup


    My guess is 58 Yes 42 No.

    But it could be 60+ Yes too.

    The undecided folks cannot have been too impressed with the No debaters in the final week.


  • #114
    QueenRizla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭QueenRizla


    theyoungchap wrote: »
    Would it be a big deal to listen to the "check that you are on the register" ads which were running for months?
    It is a bit rich blaming the council - if the person doesn't live there, what is the point in posting a letter to them?
    We have a country of people who seem to think it is up to the council to ask them if they want to vote. Get up off their a$$ and go find out.

    I appreciate that, but many people vote at their parents house as that is a constant if they move around the country and if they have done that for years might not feel checking the register is even necessary if they voted or did jury duty recently. You have to fill out a form to transfer vote.

    From an administration point just close the loop and send out a deregistraion postcard if you are going to bother removing people. At least it is clear they need to reregister elsewhere if they want to vote.


  • #115
    FourFourRED
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,956 ✭✭✭FourFourRED


    I voted Yes


  • #116
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Fairly sure you can't vote once it strikes ten.

    You can, once you're in you're in. Doors close at 10 that's all.


  • #117
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,261 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    ted1 wrote: »
    So spoil your vote.

    Why? Why bother travelling to spoil your vote?
    Because you get to excercise your democratic right which is not afforded to may people around the world and was hard fought for.

    You also get to show the establishment that you do not agree with either situations and in future votes they may offer an alternative


  • #118
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Your Face wrote: »
    Usually the people that say that are the ones that care the most.

    I really really really dont care what anyone else thinks about how I voted.


  • #119
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Your Face wrote: »
    Like someone who voted 'No' is going to risk saying so here.

    Why not? it's a secret poll.

    I voted Yes.


  • #120
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    I really really really dont care what anyone else thinks about how I voted.

    Watch out for the peer police..


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  • #121
    jasonb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭jasonb


    ted1 wrote: »
    Because you get to excercise your democratic right which is not afforded to may people around the world and was hard fought for.

    You also get to show the establishment that you do not agree with either situations and in future votes they may offer an alternative

    I agree with this apart from one thing... Spoiling your vote doesn't necessarily show that you don't agree with the options. If you spoil your vote it's put in with those votes from people who didn't know what they were doing/couldn't use a pen.

    I'd love to see a 'None of the Above' option in all votes, that way the opinion of someone who doesn't agree with the options given would still be counted.


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