Only 14 days to ensure you can vote

ciderandhavoc

Politics.ie has launched an information campaign to highlight that people only have fourteen days to ensure they are able to vote in the forthcoming local and European elections and the citizenship referendum.

http://www.Politics.ie

dictatorcat

A quick question on a related topic, you can check to see if you're on the electoral register in your local garda station, post office and library, however can you do this over the phone? or do you need to go to them in person with ID? I've recently switched registers to Dublin and want to make sure it's actually done!

Villain

Originally posted by dictatorcat
A quick question on a related topic, you can check to see if you're on the electoral register in your local garda station, post office and library, however can you do this over the phone? or do you need to go to them in person with ID? I've recently switched registers to Dublin and want to make sure it's actually done!

Ring your local Town/City Concil there the ones that update the register.

Victor

Originally posted by dictatorcat
do you need to go to them in person with ID?

It's a public* document, anyone can look at it.

* You can opt out of the public version and be included in the statutory version only.

Victor

Bumpeh!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0510/localelection.html

Immigrants can use ID cards to vote

10 May 2004 22:09
Immigrants will be able to use Garda National Immigration Bureau cards as proof of identity to vote in the local elections next month.

Garda¨ª are issuing a circular to all garda stations authorising the use of the cards.

There had been claims that garda¦Í had been refusing to accept the cards for people seeking to get on the register of electors.

Just two weeks remain for people not yet registered to vote in next month's local and European elections to get their names on the Supplementary Register.

Some estimates suggest there could be up to 100,000 young people who have not registered, as well as tens of thousands of non-nationals.

The late registration form has to be signed in the presence of a garda at the voter's local garda station, and then returned to the local authority - before 24 May.

Non-nationals are not only entitled to vote in the local elections, some are also candidates for their local authority. [EU citizens can also vote in the European elections]

To qualify for a vote, non-nationals must have been normally resident here since last September, but some have faced problems in registering.