Did you pause before casting your vote today ?

dearg lady

humanji wrote: »

Well there's more people openly voting no because of reason not on the treaty. This forum is testament to that. If you want to counter all the Yes voters who voting for stupid reasons then you should post here that you wish you had 100 ballots so that you could cancel out 99 of the stupid votes. It makes no difference as it's not going to happen.

But I don't wish I had 100 votes to counter their votes. I don't know how they would vote if they had all the info, maybe they would decide yes, maybe no. The point is it's their decision, not mine.

It's unfortunate that some people are being taken in by nonsense, but from people I've spoken to and readin here on Boards I've seen just as many on the Yes side who have no clue what the treaty is about as there is on the No side.

spatchco

no still means no,,

dogbert27

Had no hesitation in voting YES! but if no wins I'll have now hesitation in planning my escape route from this God foresaken country!

xardoxify

I won't be pausing when voting YES.:)

kippy

Nehaxak wrote: »

Did you ? Did you have even a little doubt before casting your vote today, whether you voted yes or no ?

I knew what I was voting before I went in for sure this morning, but, I still paused and doubted for a moment.

Looked like I was the first to vote in my area from what I could see of the sheets the woman had in front of her, she went through the first 10 pages of them at least before getting to my name and nobody else was crossed off the list of voters.
I know it's really early in the day but still, last Lisbon ref the same local polling station was fairly packed at around the same time.

Just in relation to the "turnout" while you were there this morning.
I think there were local and European elections held on the same day as the Lisbon vote last time out, maybe a reason why more people turned out earlier on in the day.

Havent voted it but I wont be pausing.
I feat that the No side MAY win out. I know a lot of people who are voting no for reason not relevent to what is in the treaty however I also know a few voting yes for the same reasons.

moondogspot

Voted No without any hesitation. I wasn't going to be swayed by Ireland's white-collar

crooks & members of the Golden Circle.

dogbert27

moondogspot wrote: »

Voted No without any hesitation. I wasn't going to be swayed by Ireland's white-collar

crooks & members of the Golden Circle.

Yes, cos that's what Lisbon was about. :rolleyes:

moondogspot

dogbert27 wrote: »

Yes, cos that's what Lisbon was about. :rolleyes:

They are the sleaze that's pushing it.;)

themacdaddy

No doubts...no pause

speedfreak

Big fat YES - done and dusted in 0.2 sec. That is NOT an endorsement of Cowen and how this goddamn country is run. How many voted NO based on the treaty?? Very few it seems..

dogbert27

So I take it then that you'll vote for Sinn Fein or the socialists in the next general election then? Or go the whole hog and vote Declan Ganley for Toaiseach!:)

moondogspot

dogbert27 wrote: »

So I take it then that you'll vote for Sinn Fein or the socialists in the next general election then? Or go the whole hog and vote Declan Ganley for Toaiseach!:)

No, not at all. The fact is I trust our own little corrupt government & big businessmen even less.

eightyfish

moondogspot wrote: »

They are the sleaze that's pushing it.;)

So everyone in our government and opposition, as well as the leaders of most unions and almost all professional bodies are crooks/sleaze, and the anti-gay extreme-Christian Coir, nationalist and shady Sinn Fein, and British born British and Russian funded multi-millionaire Declan Ganley are not?

lazygal

Did not pause for a milisecond-big fat yes. Do we want loopers like Mary Flipping Lou (defeated at election), McKenna (defeated at election) and Coir (who gave them a mandate?) running the show??

eightyfish

Yes.

For common sense.

Now let's try and get this country, and continent, working again.

xzanti

Didn't cast nattin yet... I'm hoping the Taxi drivers will let me home before 10pm so I can vote though..

OT I doubt I'll hesitate..

robindch

Nehaxak wrote: »

I still paused

I slapped the paper down on the desk, then thought briefly about the disgraceful lies that Coir brought to the debate, the manipulations of Ganley and what that PrimeTime documentary dug up about him; UKIP and their primary-color, crayon-level hypocrisy; the well-meaning but clueless Higgins; the shadowy menace of Sinn Fein and a run-up that was, frankly, a slaughter-house for the rational and honest debate.

Then I put an X in the Yes box, almost breaking the pencil as I did so, as much to support a decent institution doing a decent job, as I did in the hope that these fruitcakes and their weird, anti-social, unhinged ideas will bugger off.

<grunt>

HighMan

smokingman wrote: »

I will NOT be swayed by anyone suggesting I'm unpatriotic to support a yes vote - I love this island even with all it's problems but I also love being a European. Travelling across Europe has given me the comfortable feeling that people are mostly the same in things they want, food, love, happiness....
We are Irish citizens standing side by side with our neighbours for a common cause - the foundations the EU were built on and if the Treaty is ratified, this will include the Charter of Fundamental Human Rights - what's wrong with that?

I'm urging people to vote yes only because I believe it to be right.
Not because I'm being paid by foreign interests, not because I believe any of the lies, not because I am in any way looking out for anything but this Islands future.

I hope the future will be good - same as every European.

My sentiments exactly. YES / TÁ

humanji

moondogspot wrote: »

They are the sleaze that's pushing it.;)

Way to show them who's boss. I just know Monday morning if there's a no vote they'll all fall on their swords and have all there belongings donated to the poor.

robindch

speedfreak wrote: »

How many voted NO based on the treaty?? Very few it seems..

About 60% of people who voted in this poll.

Though I'd imagine that this is about ten times the actual figure.

happyfriday74

Voted yes.

Pretty much all 50 people in the office are voting yes too...I hope the other 42 who were let go in the past year are voting yes too.


If its a no vote then I'm out of here, Oz here I come. I'll watch the rest of the isolationists live in mud huts work in collective farms for the forseeable future.

Its a shame the anger at the goverment is urging a lot of the deluded populance to vote to cut us off from europe and leave our little island isolated and beyond the help we desperately need.

Kidchameleon

Voted NO for the second time, no problem.

dearg lady

It worries me that people are voting no as a 'f**k you' to the government because 'they got us into this mess' Irrelevant in terms of the Treaty, it's also a concern that people are voting yes because they're fearful of Coir/Libertas/Sinn Fein in power. This Treaty won't give them power. Please look at the facts of the Treaty and decide is this what you want for Ireland.

Empire o de Sun

I puased not because of my decision but because the Ballot Paper is so badly designed, and deson't take into account people who have reading difficulties. The font used was disgusting and it was all packed so tight together. Wouldn't be surprised if people ticked the wrong box cos of this, be it yes or no.

uprising

No hesitation whatsoever, NO, actually there was an elderly man beside me, seemed a bit confused, i was temped to show him how to put an X in the NO box

fifth

Haven't voted yet...am in work.. but as soon as I finish.. polling station here I come.. for me, for Ireland, for our future:

YES / TÁ

brianthebard

Sam Vimes wrote: »

The thing is though that this is not the democratic voice of these people, this is the extremely undemocratic voice of the lying extremists who have tricked these people into thinking they're doing the right thing. I can respect someone's right to vote but that doesn't mean I have to respect someone who is voting based on misconceptions and lies

You don't get to decide whether its their voice or someone elses. Its amazingly conceited of you to suggest that the majority of no voters are being swayed by 'lying extremists'- you know feck all about why or how people arrived at their decision to vote but you're still willing to sell them all down the river anyways in a Coir shaped boat manned by Declan Ganley.

dogbert27

dearg lady wrote: »

it's also a concern that people are voting yes because they're fearful of Coir/Libertas/Sinn Fein in power. This Treaty won't give them power.

I don't think people are voting yes out of fear that these groups will be in power. They may be voting yes against the lack of integrity that these groups have shown through out the campaign.

Sam Vimes

brianthebard wrote: »

You don't get to decide whether its their voice or someone elses.

I know I don't. I said I wish I could counter the lies through my vote

brianthebard wrote: »

Its amazingly conceited of you to suggest that the majority of no voters are being swayed by 'lying extremists'- you know feck all about why or how people arrived at their decision to vote but you're still willing to sell them all down the river anyways in a Coir shaped boat manned by Declan Ganley.

It's not conceited when the evidence has been presented to me over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Quite often people scoff at organisations like Coir but then repeat their lies, not knowing where they came from.

What are your treaty based reasons for a no vote? If you feel you have been unfairly tarred please correct me

Fighting Irish

I didn't hesitate at all, once i saw the sign that said
"A Yes vote is a vote for abortion, VOTE NO"
I couldn't wait to vote yes