Wicklow

iPlop · 27-02-2011 01:00PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

Are the Wicklow staff holding out for overtime?

Agree to their demands and pay them what they want, hurry up!

It's like watching paint dry ,c'mon get the finger out!

jaffa20 · 27-02-2011 01:04PM

Is there much point eliminating 1 at a time when it won't give enough seats to make anyone elected?

colsmiff · 27-02-2011 01:06PM

A damning indictment of Fianna Fail's failed education policies

hdowney · 27-02-2011 01:44PM

i swear we are being seen as a joke by the rest of the country. they can't confirm who is gonna b in government next (like is it gonna b a coalition or **** like that) until everyone is elected. and we, paddy last as usual, are holding the whole show up. it is completely nuts.

most of these indos haven't a hope of getting elected and yet we must eliminated them one by one, and count their votes. their votes do not seem to overly be helping anyone get elected. and why on earth does it take something like an hour to redistribute a couple hundred at most votes!!! seriously it smacks of a lack of education in our county!!!

Morgase · 27-02-2011 01:49PM

Looks like Donnelly is doing well out of the transfers, as is Brady. I believe it is important to get these redistributions done when it's going to be so tight for that last seat(s).

gcgirl · 27-02-2011 01:51PM

Senior infants in St Kevins grey stones would be slightly faster at counting anybody down there

iPlop · 27-02-2011 01:57PM

Wicklow, Count 8. KAVANAGH Pat (IND) excluded ,source twitter

edanto · 27-02-2011 02:14PM

It's been done the right way, by the book. With things so close, the returning officer is making sure that everything is accurate. Couldn't ask for more.

ergo · 27-02-2011 02:15PM

gcgirl wrote: »

As always but seriously the situation on not knowing what bundles of 50/100 were was rather laughable

it was laughable but that's not what your comment said!

but I've just realised you're a native so I can't get too defensive over your generalised comments on Wicklow...;)

re the slowness, didn't they draft someone in from Carlow to oversee the count because it's been so slow in WW historically..? surely we can blame somebody else for this...:rolleyes:

gcgirl · 27-02-2011 02:29PM

If you go back to 87,92 and even 97 it was far faster usually had a few in by evening time

caseyann · 27-02-2011 02:33PM

What are they doing in wicklow lol

Hurry up :mad:

Mushy · 27-02-2011 02:39PM

caseyann wrote: »

What are they doing in wicklow lol Hurry up :mad:

Tea break for counting the like 200 votes or so I'm sure:rolleyes:

iPlop · 27-02-2011 02:41PM

No candidate reaches quota. Inds Nicky Kelly & Donal Kiernan eliminated. Their 585 & 472 votes redistributed

gcgirl · 27-02-2011 02:41PM

Some body forgot to buy the Jaffa cakes devastation in the Wicklow count centre :-/

caseyann · 27-02-2011 02:45PM

Mushy wrote: »

Tea break for counting the like 200 votes or so I'm sure:rolleyes:

Go over and kick them in ass :mad::D

Mushy · 27-02-2011 02:49PM

caseyann wrote: »

Go over and kick them in ass :mad::D

I would, but this is my second day not getting dressed so I'm not moving.

caseyann · 27-02-2011 02:54PM

Mushy wrote: »

I would, but this is my second day not getting dressed so I'm not moving.

HAHAHA what is it a lazy weekend with cookies and tea

Enjoy

johnny_ultimate · 27-02-2011 02:54PM

If only we had automated e-voting.

Oh. Right.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-02-2011 03:01PM

Alun wrote: »

Why is this taking so long? I mean, how much time do they need to resistribute a few hundred votes from each of the no-hoper independent candidates and get into the real meat of the count? Can they not establish some kind of cutoff, and eliminate a whole bunch of them in one go or something?

you need a quarter of a quota to get election expenses, the bottom 10 or so candidates combined are below this and so couldn't resonably be expected to make it to a quarter quota.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-02-2011 03:04PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

If only we had automated e-voting.

Oh. Right.

2 votes between the guys over in Galway, so no hidden counting mechanisms thank you especially when the decision on which votes to transfer is pseudorandom

johnny_ultimate · 27-02-2011 03:08PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

2 votes between the guys over in Galway, so no hidden counting mechanisms thank you especially when the decision on which votes to transfer is pseudorandom

Can't complain, they are indeed doing it by the book, just a very slow process is all!

Still hoping Donnelly will gain the lingering fifth seat, although it's looking like the two other Labour candidates will be eliminated at some point, which means we can't count out Ferris just yet.

Blowfish · 27-02-2011 03:13PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Can't complain, they are indeed doing it by the book, just a very slow process is all!

Still hoping Donnelly will gain the lingering fifth seat, although it's looking like the two other Labour candidates will be eliminated at some point, which means we can't count out Ferris just yet.

Indeed, he'd need to overtake Brady to have any chance. He seems to be picking up a lot of transfers from the other IND and SF are historically transfer toxic, so there is still a posibility.

gizmo555 · 27-02-2011 03:17PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

2 votes between the guys over in Galway, so no hidden counting mechanisms thank you especially when the decision on which votes to transfer is pseudorandom

One of the stupider aspects of the e-voting system was that it preserved the random selection of which votes to transfer.

There was no need to do this, since in a computerised system it would have been trivially easy to distribute fractional votes to achieve complete proportionality, in the same way as is done in Senate elections.

Dannygirl · 27-02-2011 03:31PM

Can't believe RTE are going off air just when Wicklow is about to get really interesting!! :mad:

Savage Tyrant · 27-02-2011 03:36PM

Dannygirl wrote: »

Can't believe RTE are going off air just when Wicklow is about to get really interesting!! :mad:

Raging myself.

Anyone any idea where I can keep up to date on what's going on at the Wicklow count?

Mushy · 27-02-2011 03:37PM

Dannygirl wrote: »

Can't believe RTE are going off air just when Wicklow is about to get really interesting!! :mad:

But...but the important areas of Dublin are finished.

gcgirl · 27-02-2011 03:37PM

Dannygirl wrote: »

Can't believe RTE are going off air just when Wicklow is about to get really interesting!! :mad:

Operation trans****ination rte1 or come dine with me on tv3 is it even on line ?

iPlop · 27-02-2011 03:37PM

Wicklow 11th count result: No candidates reached quota. Green Niall Byrne & Ind Peter Dempsey eliminated.

Dannygirl · 27-02-2011 03:38PM

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

Raging myself.

Anyone any idea where I can keep up to date on what's going on at the Wicklow count?

Twitter #wk or #wicklow or #ge11
or rte http://www.rte.ie/news/election2011/results/wicklow.html

Dannygirl · 27-02-2011 03:39PM

Mushy wrote: »

But...but the important areas of Dublin are finished.

:P

Wicklow

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