Same Sex Marriage Referendum Mega Thread - MOD WARNING IN FIRST POST

SILVAMAN wrote: »

Found them unclear and lightly printed.
Ought to have in capped bold print the generic name of the issue on the reverse.

As MrWalshpointed out, there's too much text, and it's made worse by the fact it's in English and Irish (and yes I know it's our national tongue and we should be ashamed that we're not fluent...)

As you say, I think printing the name of the ref on the reverse is a good idea. In practical terms, "marriage equality: yes/no" should suffice. If someone isn't familiar with the issue at this stage, they shouldn't be entitled to a vote.

Whosthis wrote: »

Double yes. I had intended voting no in the presidential referendum but the ballot papers only say 34th and 35th amendment and i didn't know which was which.

Edit: At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, why do they provide pencils in the booths and not pens?

I wondered the very same thing the first time I voted here? Pencils?

Merry Prankster wrote: »

I think the inner conflict arises from clinging on to a long-held belief that one 'feels' to be true, but that is difficult to defend rationally or intellectually.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman only. I don't have to change my opinion whether it is a yes or no vote.
For msot there is not this conflict, just people don't want hassle.

You see it here as in the above quote. No people are more tolerant of Yes voters than Yes are of No voters.

kunst nugget wrote: »

Voted at 7.30. Yes from myself and the wife is voting Yes later. Have to say, it would be fantastic if it passed but I've been fearing the worst over the last couple of days. I've been surrounded by a lot of no voters or people not willing to vote because 'it'll open a can of worms' over the last couple of days.

I hear you but I think a lot of the No voters are just not going to bother voting- it doesn't effect many/any of them in the slightest and there's nothing in it either way for many of them .

RobertKK wrote: »

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman only. I don't have to change my opinion whether it is a yes or no vote.
For msot there is not this conflict, just people don't want hassle.

You see it here as in the above quote. No people are more tolerant of Yes voters than Yes are of No voters.

Non-sense. If No-voters were "tolerant" of Yes voters in the first place, they wouldn't be voting No. This victim card is getting old.

gladrags wrote: »

Definitley.

You could actually see how an individual could mix up both referendums..

And to be honest,the Irish interpretation,
makes it more difficult,and I am sure confusing for certain sections of the electorate.

Yea, too much writing on them.

gandalf wrote: »

So if you get invited to a same sex wedding you won't attend then?

I doubt anybody would be too cut up tbh....he sounds like mad craic :pac:

A lot of "Vote Yes" scratched and wrote into the wooden voting box that i was in (In a school). I notified the people at the table so i suppose they took action.

Double yes from our household, we've decided our votes will personally be canceling out David Quinn's and John water's respectively. :P

RobertKK wrote: »

No people are more tolerant of Yes voters than Yes are of No voters.

That's why the Chairman of Iona came out and said Mary McAleese was a bad Catholic for calling for votes against God's Law.

This referendum will pass it has the might of the state behind it - all political parties, a former president, the Gardai, the GAA's GPA, the rich and famous, the IDA, Google, Twitter and other multinationals, the media with soft interviews of Yes. David Quinn was asked how he voted on the divorce which was irrelevant, how did homosexual people come about, a tweet that was taken out of context and only brought up by a Yes campaigner months after just as the campaign for the referendum began.

It will be a miracle if Yes don't win this. I would bet my house and other assets on it being a Yes vote. Think it will be 60% Yes, 40% No.

RobertKK wrote: »

This referendum will pass it has the might of the state behind it - all political parties, a former president, the Gardai, the GAA's GPA, the rich and famous, the IDA, Google, Twitter and other multinationals, the media with soft interviews of Yes.

Everyone's out of step but my Johnny!

Hermy wrote: »

I have to challenge that ascertion.
If there is a Yes vote your opinion of marriage and mine will both be recognised in law.
If there is a No vote only your opinion of what constitutes a marriage will be recognised.

No, a Yes vote does not recognise what I believe marriage to be, which is an expanded definition.