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Can you vote if you haven't gotten a Polling Card

  • 25-10-2011 7:25pm
    #1
    Mokong
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭


    With the election just a few days away now I still haven't gotten a Polling card?

    I've checked the register website and I am on it.

    Will I still be able to vote on Thrusday without the polling card?

    I'm wondering if maybe I didn't get a polling card this time caused I didn't vote in the last general election as I was away on holiday on voting day?

    But I'm still on the register of voters so I should still be able to vote I assume?

    Just looking for someone to clarify for me :P


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  • #2
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    I send back the card that came through the door a few weeks ago, the day it arrived, but were still not on the register. Not impressed. I'm not on the Kilkenny one either but I was a few years ago.


  • #3
    AdMMM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    You'll be fine, just bring some ID with you.

    I've moved up to Dublin until Christmas and had no less than 15 polling cards pop in our letter box... in a house that in no way can or ever has accommodated 15 people. I wonder who's my local SF representative...


  • #4
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Ha, it would appear herself was removed from the register despite confirming to a council official who called a couple of months back that she was still a resident.


  • #5
    dunphy3
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭dunphy3


    Mokong wrote: »
    With the election just a few days away now I still haven't gotten a Polling card?

    I've checked the register website and I am on it.

    Will I still be able to vote on Thrusday without the polling card?

    I'm wondering if maybe I didn't get a polling card this time caused I didn't vote in the last general election as I was away on holiday on voting day?

    But I'm still on the register of voters so I should still be able to vote I assume?

    Just looking for someone to clarify for me :P
    yes you will need to bring id ,photoid/driving licence,ect


  • #6
    slackness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭slackness


    I changed my vote to a Waterford address for the general election earlier this year, had no problem voting in that, got all of the leaflets etc. for the presidential election sent and addressed to me, but yet no polling card and now I'm not on the register according to the website! Was there some attempt at a clean up that has gone wrong?


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  • #7
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    slackness wrote: »
    I changed my vote to a Waterford address for the general election earlier this year, had no problem voting in that, got all of the leaflets etc. for the presidential election sent and addressed to me, but yet no polling card and now I'm not on the register according to the website! Was there some attempt at a clean up that has gone wrong?

    According to the register check website, you email mmcknight@waterfordcity.ie with any queries. So give your address and name, they will check the records for you.


  • #8
    tankbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭tankbarry


    had my polling card with me this morning and they wouldnt leave me vote because I had no ID... I didnt need ID for the General Elections..... absolute joke dragging the child in there too


  • #9
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    tankbarry wrote: »
    had my polling card with me this morning and they wouldnt leave me vote because I had no ID... I didnt need ID for the General Elections..... absolute joke dragging the child in there too

    ID is a requirement regardless. You may or may not be asked, but its a requirement.


  • #10
    -Kenny-
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭-Kenny-


    Guys I didnt get my voting card but i got all the spam vote for me type mail over the last week. I voted in the general election but My details arent on that check the register website.
    Any advice? :confused::confused::confused:

    EDIT: My details are on this website however http://www.waterfordcity.ie/ereg/ ?


  • #11
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    -Kenny- wrote: »
    Guys I didnt get my voting card but i got all the spam vote for me type mail over the last week. I voted in the general election but My details arent on that check the register website.
    Any advice? :confused::confused::confused:

    EDIT: My details are on this website however http://www.waterfordcity.ie/ereg/ ?

    Yeah that new website for Check the Register seems a bit dodgy.

    Go in with a from of ID that shows you live in the constituency and you should be fine.


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