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So,is there anybody not voting this Friday?

  • 22-02-2011 04:13PM
    #1
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Looks like i won't get a vote this election despite trying to register twice.

    I sent in a registration card/form my mam had gotten in the library but i wasn't put on the register. I printed off the RFA2 form from the internet and sent that off the day before the deadline but alas i still amen't registered.

    I'm kind of dissappointed because i really wanted to vote in this election.

    Anyone else here not registered or just not going to bother voting?


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Comments

  • #2
    chillywilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    I am registered and will be voting :)


  • #3
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    For all the elderly FF/FG voters.....

    I hope it rains.


  • #4
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Wasnt there a thread asking this same question last week :confused:

    Edit : at least this one had a poll :)


  • #5
    whiteboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭whiteboy


    couldn't be bothered, they are one and the same


  • #6
    GrizzlyMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭GrizzlyMan


    i wont be voting!


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  • #7
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    squod wrote: »
    For all the elderly FF/FG voters.....

    I hope it rains.
    Why?


  • #8
    Copper23
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Copper23


    Unfortunately I won't. I'm still in the States and won't be at home for a few weeks. Was hoping the election might not be until into March so i could vote.

    Despite being born Irish, an Irish citizen, and Irish passport holder, an Irish resident, irish tax payer and because I travel with my job I will not be allowed vote. (And no, if I "really" want to vote I can not return on Friday. Despite this election being very important, so is keeping the job I am currently lucky to have)

    I think we've covered that topic to death in other threads though.


  • #9
    Dan133269
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Dan133269


    I can't remember the process for registering to vote, but if you followed the correct guidelines OP and someone else's idiocy resulted in you not getting put on the register, I wouldn't take it lying down. This is your constitutional right to vote, and it's one of the biggest elections in the history of the State.

    If it was me, I would see what legal action I could take. Failing that, there is always violence. It is always the final means of exacting justice :) by the way, I'm aware of the irony of advocating democracy, and then violence, but the latter is only justified when the former is denied.


  • #10
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Richie Cranium wrote: »
    Wasnt there a thread asking this same question last week :confused:

    Edit : at least this one had a poll :)

    Never thought to add a poll tbh. I tried to edit my first post to add one but there's no option to do it now.


  • #11
    red menace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    Can't vote as overseas


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  • #12
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Why?

    Because old people are rubbish, without exception.


  • #13
    ZzubZzub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭ZzubZzub


    Can't, in England and I've an exam on Friday! :(

    I'd much rather be voting...


  • #14
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    This was the first year I became informed enough to vote, but unfortuneatly never registered on time.
    So I won't be voting.


  • #15
    Kimono-Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    Looks like i won't get a vote this election despite trying to register twice.

    I sent in a registration card/form my mam had gotten in the library but i wasn't put on the register. I printed off the RFA2 form from the internet and sent that off the day before the deadline but alas i still amen't registered.

    I'm kind of dissappointed because i really wanted to vote in this election.

    Anyone else here not registered or just not going to bother voting?


    i was doing canvassing work in an area i grew up in last Saturday and i had a copy of the local register, there were so many of my cousins friends (aged around 21yrs )who filled out registration forms in college..etc who weren't on the list. they didn't know that until it was too late too.

    luckily my change of address went through perfect so at least myself and my partner will be voting. but i find it strange alot of voters weren't added despite filling in forms on time.


  • #16
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    my form got there a day late as well so no registered, bah. although given the options you're just voting one shower of gobsh1tes out for another. check back in a few years when whoever is voted into power are being lambasted and whoever voted them in are being ridiculed.


  • #17
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    If anyone who can vote but doesn't and then complains about the shower of whatever that’s in power, they should STFU. You aren't happy with the system, run yourself, you don't like any of the parties, go independent, worst case scenario and you'd rather see a roll of sellotape than any of them spoil your vote.

    Don't just sit there and complain, and if you feel one vote won't make a difference there have been several where it has and if you still are thinking why bother FF/FG/LAB are gonna get in and my fave independent is gonna get hardly any votes, canvass for them.

    Be it amongst friends, families or co-workers, it could swing it you'd never know.


  • #18
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    I'm registered and will be voting.


  • #19
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    I got my polling card this morning,and i will vote on Friday.

    Mickey Rourke is getting my number 1 :)


  • #20
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    Not voting. I'd like to say it's because we've no good candidates, the parties are all the same, the independants will never win, etc., but really I'm just too goddamn lazy.


  • #21
    chillywilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    TPD wrote: »
    Not voting. I'd like to say it's because we've no good candidates, the parties are all the same, the independants will never win, etc., but really I'm just too goddamn lazy.

    good man yourself :rolleyes:


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  • #22
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I expect by next Monday I will be on 92K a year plus expenses. :D

    Maybe a minister's job, who knows.


  • #23
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭mawk


    danniemcq wrote: »
    If anyone who can vote but doesn't and then complains about the shower of whatever that’s in power, they should STFU. You aren't happy with the system, run yourself, you don't like any of the parties, go independent, worst case scenario and you'd rather see a roll of sellotape than any of them spoil your vote.

    Don't just sit there and complain, and if you feel one vote won't make a difference there have been several where it has and if you still are thinking why bother FF/FG/LAB are gonna get in and my fave independent is gonna get hardly any votes, canvass for them.

    Be it amongst friends, families or co-workers, it could swing it you'd never know.

    True dat. If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain about the state of the nation 12\24\36 months from now


  • #24
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    *raises Hand

    I've lived here for near enough a decade now, bought a house and married, but I still simply can't afford the horrendous fees to obtain Irish citizenship. So unfortunately, I shan't be able to vote this time round.
    Maybe I'll win the lotto before the next election, that should just about be enough to cover the cost of the certificate and stamp... :rolleyes:


  • #25
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    won't be voting - cause I don't wanna pay the fine...

    Someone, a long time ago, made a mistake and put me on the register despite quite clearly saying I was a German citizen, not Irish. Have been getting polling cards ever since (for the referendum, and all elections, not just the local ones I am entitled to vote in).

    I got married, changed my name, and moved house - asked them by email to update the register just for the record, they said they can't do that by email.

    Weeks later, I get a letter from the council to the new address, asking me to fill in forms, go to the guards, get a stamp, etc etc. I never bothered, too much hassle.

    Couple of days ago, I get my polling card for Friday's election. With my new name AND sent to my new address...:eek:

    Moved to a small village though, and everyone knows I'm 'ze german' - so I cannot vote. Would probably have gotten away with it in the city...

    And I will still complain about the government, whoever gets in. And heartily so!


  • #26
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Was there not something before about registering on the day by bring down your IDs to the polling station?


  • #27
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    got the polling card this morning and i'll be voting :D


  • #28
    ronkmonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭ronkmonster


    mawk wrote: »
    True dat. If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain about the state of the nation 12\24\36 months from now

    No they don't


  • #29
    thefishone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭thefishone


    No changing my mind now,posted the voting papers back yesterday!


  • #30
    upandcumming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    I filled out the wrong form through blatant idiocy, the Garda stamped it anyway. Mam went into council offices and the assistant wouldn't accept it. She went back a couple of hours later and another Garda was walking in at the same time. Mam said to him that she was in a rush and handed in the forms for me!


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  • #31
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    squod wrote: »
    For all the elderly FF/FG voters.....

    I hope it rains.

    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Why?

    Here's the why.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH9mpUn_VHs


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