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March 8th - What’s your vote? **Mod Note In Post #677**

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Voting NO for both

    My local polling station in Dublin 7 was pretty quiet when I went there to vote at 4pm, after finishing my work for the week.

    A few frail old dears being helped into the school building, but that's been the case the last few times I was there for general election in 2020 and the 2018 abortion referendum. The elderly get out to vote or are helped get out to vote.

    The young lads staffing the polling table told me it had been very quiet but was picking up a bit. Cast my no/no votes and off I went.

    For the record, I am a 48 year old gay man in a long-term relationship, would hold pretty centre-left political views (I believe in common sense and fairness), I voted yes to repeal the 8th in 2018 and have always voted for progressive social change in referenda right back to the first one I voted in as a college student, the 1995 divorce referendum.

    This was a complete botch job of a referendum by an utterly inept and out of touch govt and that's why I rejected their very poorly thought-out proposals.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭Eibhir


    Voting NO for both

    You definitely voted double No😉



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    Voting NO for both

    deleted



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭flos1964


    Voting NO for both

    No No 4/9 ... Yes Yes 3/1.. Family referendum No 4/11 Yes 15/8... Care referendum No 2/7 Yes 9/4.



  • Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭Kildare787


    I took 10/11 and 4 to 6 in a double this morning. The prices closed in a good bit. A lot of people must think it's gonna be a no no. However knowing my betting history it will likely go the other way :D



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭flos1964




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    I am voting NO (care amendment)
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    Boyle. Just search.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭dasdog


    Voting NO for both

    [X] No to Article 41.1.1 - Amending a constitution with vague language is ridiculous.

    [X] No to Article 41.3.1 - Not that I disagree but this to me is a non-issue.

    Constitutional changes should be important like the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment. It's a distraction and shows how all of our political parties are completely out of touch. I was disengaged but could not let this slip and I hope both get rejected.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,635 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    I am voting NO (family amendment)

    I threw €50 down myself yesterday. I wouldn't read too much into the odds moving, I bet €150 on the last election date and it moved the odds so a relatively small amount of money will do that on the more novelty bets.



  • Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭Kildare787


    Cheers, they were taken down briefly. I can see them there now again.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭Kildare787


    Nice little bet if it comes in for you!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Scipri0


    Voting NO for both

    Well, I've kept to my word and went straight to vote after work and voted no on both accounts. I think it's too vague and when i hear people like Micheál Martin who said "We never got a bailout" and Leo Varadkar speaking in general, is a turn off. At the end of the day these are tokenistic votes, Why weren't we given votes on water ownership etc?

    I think it's just for the current parties to point and look at their achievements. Kinda like the same-sex marriage, All for it when the tide blows and then claim the victory. Women have the right to make up their own minds on what they choose, and i feel there's a bit "Neo-liberalism" going on here as well. I voted yes for same-sex marriage but i'm getting some vibes and doubts from this and seeing as they couldn't explain proper, I voted no to both accounts

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Hungry Burger


    Voting NO for both

    I can’t wait to see the Government try and blame ‘The Far Right’ and ‘Russian disinformation’ tomorrow for their embarrassing lack of ability to read the room



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭This is it


    Voting NO for both

    When are results expected?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,084 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Voting NO for both

    That is true, I forgot about the "racist" referendum we had to address an anomaly introduced by the good Friday agreement. That said, it was backed by the government, McDowell iirc. If no-no prevails in both tomorrow he will have led the charge on 4 successful referendum campaigns.

    At the time of the 2004 vote, it didn't feel like the turning point that this one could be. The atmosphere online indicates to me at least that this is the foreshock of anti establishment sentiment that will sweep away large numbers of local reps from traditional parties at the summer elections.

    That said, Yes could still romp home here and that anger at government is overstated. No one knows yet.

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Voting NO for both

    #Voted NoNo



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭redunited


    Voting NO for both

    When enough Yes votes have been found.



  • Posts: 133 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Voting NO for both

    Had people walking into my booth at 9.55.

    The feckers had from 7am and left it till the last 5 minutes.

    Picked up in the late afternoon/ evening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭tom23


    Voting NO for both

    Probably shift workers?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭greenpilot


    I'd dearly love to see the statistics prove you incorrect. There are many, many more threads on boards populated by more women than men and to suggest that Conservative men are all that posts on the subject is just lazy. This is a general two-barrels backlash at a government that has taken this country down a very dangerous path while ignoring the mandates of the logical, educated, experienced and pragmatic demographic. Outside the airy-fairy bubble, many millions of people in this country are barely surviving day to day. Keeping jobs, getting kids through college, home energy costs, waiting months for health appointments etc are way, way up the list of priorities. And then there's Eamon Ryan.

    This is the beginning of the end for this government. Next will be the Local elections.

    I live in a household of 4 women, ( partner and 3 young adult kids) and all voted No.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Voting NO for both

    Voted around 4pm

    Nobody but myself there at the time.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Voting NO for both

    You were paid to be there til 10. What's the hourly rate?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,403 ✭✭✭✭suvigirl


    Voting YES for both

    I went on my way to work at 9.30, was very quiet in Dublin 7



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭Consonata


    Voting YES for both

    Well over half the voting age population are currently married, and certainly in a referendum like this with low turnout that %age will trend even higher.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    Voting NO for both

    I voted No to both.

    The "Durable Relationships" being undefined is what I am voting no to that referendum. Its a Pandora's Box. I would have voted yes to this part if "durable relationships" was not contained in it. Something with implications for family law, child custody, inheritance and immigration policy (family reunification in particular) is actually way more complicated than how the government presented it. It is not just about single parent families. I would have voted yes to constitutional recognition of single parent families and unmarried parent families had it been written like that. "Durable Relationships" is far too vague. And the AG advice that The Ditch revealed backs up my concerns.

    I was less sure on the other one, the so called "women in the home" article. The solution on this would have been to add something on father's duties in raising the child. Instead they decided to delete the reference to mother's altogether. This is throwing out (no pun intended) the baby with the bathwater. I am concerned that deleting it would make it harder for mothers to defend things like carer's allowance in the courts. There is a pending courtcase based on Article 41.2 by a mother of a disabled child who was refused carer's allowance by the government.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭maebee


    Voting YES for both

    Wouldn't fault them on that. They had a busy day and still found the time to do their duty at the last minute.



  • Posts: 133 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Voting NO for both

    How do you know they had a busy day?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    You must be so proud! Imagine a 22 year old going out to vote!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭realdanbreen




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    I can almost see the MAGA cap, the grey beard and the pot belly!



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