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HOW did you vote?

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  • #32
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    loveissucide wrote: »
    Good to see Labour doing so well even if it just the net.

    I think they will do well. They've looked strong in the polls.


  • #33
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    They could have simplified the whole voting process by just giving us an 'Anyone but Fianna Fail' box to tick.


  • #34
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    That'd be a great political party.


  • #35
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I find Toiréasa a breath of fresh air in Irish politics. She's well educated, well spoken and has policies with which I agree with. Good enough for me.

    <unspoken bit?And a zillion light years more rideable than Mary Lou and Bairbre De Brun too.</unspoken bit>


  • #36
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Bluetonic wrote: »
    I'd say the tallyman is already spreading the news alright :rolleyes:

    I think he meant in this thread.

    " :rolleyes: "


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  • #37
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    stovelid wrote: »
    <unspoken bit?And a zillion light years more rideable than Mary Lou and Bairbre De Brun too.</unspoken bit>

    She is cute, but we're voting for EU elections - not for FHM top 10.


  • #38
    Ximena Cold Bulldog
    Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭ Ximena Cold Bulldog


    Why is gods name would anyone vote sinn fein?


  • #39
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The boys from the new Nationalistic Social Party, or similar, were really nice so I voted for them


  • #40
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Melany Nice Grater wrote: »
    Why is gods name would anyone vote Fianna Fáil?
    FYP, no need to thank me. ;)


  • #41
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Melany Nice Grater wrote: »
    Why is gods name would anyone vote sinn fein?

    To annoy you, obviously.

    *votes twice*


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  • #42
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    dlofnep wrote: »
    She is cute, but we're voting for EU elections - not for FHM top 10.

    I just looked at two ballot papers stuffed with twats, so you can excuse my confusion.


  • #43
    Thundercats Ho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    Europe:
    1. Funchion (SF)
    2. Sharkey (SF)

    Local:
    1. SF
    2. Labour


  • #44
    panda100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    Euro- 1.Joe Higgins
    Local- 1.Colm Stephens of people before profit
    2.Malachy Steenson of The Workers party
    By Election- 1. Maureen O'Sullivan -Independent


  • #45
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Melany Nice Grater wrote: »
    Why is gods name would anyone vote sinn fein?

    Why not tbh? In the past 10 years they've become a totally reformed political group and doing a great job in the power sharing of the North.

    It's about time that people realised that there's more to Sinn Fein than An Phoblacht and rebel songs

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2005.svg


  • #46
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Hagar wrote: »
    Local - FF No 1 - Stan Dan D'Liver
    Europe - FF No1 - Robin B'stard

    Plus ca change.
    No beard?
    Think of the horror Crash (with a beard, but I can't be arsed setting the keyboard to French to sort it) went through for all those years.

    dlofnep wrote: »
    To annoy you, obviously.

    *votes twice*
    I actually have a spare polling card.
    I voted at around 10am. Do you think they would notice if I went in and pretended to be someone who died about 6 years ago?

    Anyway,
    Town council: Labour
    County: Pirate (with Labour #2).
    European: Labour.


  • #47
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Local:
    1. Labour
    2. Labour
    3. Fine Gael
    4. Fine Gael
    5. Socialist

    Euro:
    1. Labour
    2. Fine Gael
    3. Socialist


  • #48
    Firefly Fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Firefly Fan


    Sinn Fein For Europe, Sinn Fein for county election and Sinn Fein for local council.

    Not another second etc, preference went to FF or FG. The schites are two sides of the same coin!


  • #49
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Did anyone else fill out the numbers on each card?
    I did. I always do. I've really no idea why though.
    I just pick the three or four I want to see elected and then just throw numbers at everyone else.
    I made sure Libertas got the lowest number for Europe though.


  • #50
    Michellenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    1. Green
    2. Labour
    3. Socialist


  • #51
    jen_23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭jen_23


    Terry wrote: »
    Did anyone else fill out the numbers on each card?
    I did. I always do. I've really no idea why though.
    I just pick the three or four I want to see elected and then just throw numbers at everyone else.
    .

    Yip that's what I did picked my top 3 and as long as FF were the last numbers I didn't really care about the others.


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  • #52
    bonnieprince
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭bonnieprince


    That's democracy for you. People may have differing views to you.

    I find Toiréasa a breath of fresh air in Irish politics. She's well educated, well spoken and has policies with which I agree with. Good enough for me.

    I am all for Democracy but in the right hands :D

    Between Mary Lou and Ms Ferris you still cant hide Sinn Fein for what they are, a political wing of a terrorist organisation.

    They are great at the smoke and mirrors of politicking.


  • #53
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,977 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    European:
    Labour (Prionsais DeRossa)
    Joe Higgins
    Fine Gael (Gay Mitchell)


    Local:
    Labour
    Fine Gael
    Joe Higgins
    Green
    Indepndent


  • #54
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    I pretty much filled in both cards leaving FF/Greens with no selections. Libertas got my 1st in the europeans. They are the only ones* who would like to see expenses published for MEP;s.

    *Given Mary Lou's €270,000 euro expenses and her 50% attendance rate I couldnt bring myself to consider her.

    Can you imagine meeting someone who has a job where the expenses (not salary just expenses) are in he 1/4 of a million euros ballpark?

    Only turnin up for work 2 days most weeks and 3 days per week if you were lucky ? SF were among the only ones in Ireland to publish their mep expenses - fair play to them for that but my 1st preference went to Libertas.

    Sinn Fein MEP Mary Lou McDonald revealed she had claimed €273,470 last year.
    Labour's Proinsias De Rossa revealed on his website that he had claimed more than €357,720.
    And he was joined by Independent MEP, Marian Harkin, who revealed on her website that she had claimed €350,512.


  • #55
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Terry wrote: »
    Did anyone else fill out the numbers on each card?
    I did. I always do. I've really no idea why though.
    I just pick the three or four I want to see elected and then just throw numbers at everyone else.
    I made sure Libertas got the lowest number for Europe though.

    Party loyalties aside, I vote for those that appear to share the views that I do, then I stop. No point in having a vote transfer to a candidate that I do not feel represents my interests.

    I made it to 5 for the European candidates and to 2 for the locals.

    I found that I'd never heard of most of the local candidates (ward boundary shift recently) so I just voted for the 2 I knew that have done decent work locally in the last few years.
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  • #56
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    bonnieprince wrote: »
    Between Mary Lou and Ms Ferris you still cant hide Sinn Fein for what they are, a political wing of a terrorist organisation.

    Maybe you missed the memo. Are the fact that SF are engaged, and are one of the catalyst parties for the GFA.. No?


  • #57
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    This is interesting I fancy the thought of compareing boards views with the general population


  • #58
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Terry wrote: »
    Did anyone else fill out the numbers on each card?
    I did. I always do. I've really no idea why though.
    I just pick the three or four I want to see elected and then just throw numbers at everyone else.
    I made sure Libertas got the lowest number for Europe though.

    I do the same. I've always been confused as to whether you're supposed to or not though.

    Alot of people say that you're only meant to chose your favorites and then rank them accordingly, leaving the others blank

    By filling out the whole sheet, it's probably giving the others a better chance unwillingly :pac:


  • #59
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Why not tbh? In the past 10 years they've become a totally reformed political group and doing a great job in the power sharing of the North.

    It's about time that people realised that there's more to Sinn Fein than An Phoblacht and rebel songs

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Northern_Ireland_election_seats_1997-2005.svg
    Decent policies too much to ask for?


  • #60
    José Alaninho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭José Alaninho


    Joey the lips wrote: »
    This is interesting I fancy the thought of compareing boards views with the general population

    True. If Boards was anything to go by, in two separate polls (this one and one in Politics), Sinn Féin would be the 3rd largest party in the 26 counties.

    Sigh, if only....


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  • #61
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Aidric wrote: »
    Decent policies too much to ask for?

    Policies are purely for pandering purposes


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