Electoral register for General Election 2020

pure.conya

apparently anybody that registered to vote after 15/02/2019 you're not eligible to vote in this upcoming election, you have until Thurs week (Jan 23rd) to make sure you're definitely on the register in time to vote, not that our votes make much difference really at the end of the day, but if this is another way for Fine Gael to further manipluate the process well then feic that, get checking the register asap, stay informed, don't just read the newspapers or rely on rte, be careful and critical viewing anything online to do with politics because full-on PR/voter manipulation campaigns have been running well before now and are going to be in full swing from today, here we go again...

...are there any real options out there that might bring some real change around here or are we destined to keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome?

Edgware

Let's keep the recovery going

Capt'n Midnight

Vote Early.

Vote Often

Capt'n Midnight

pure.conya wrote: »

...are there any real options out there that might bring some real change around here or are we destined to keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome?

Depends on who is in your area.

Unlike the UK and US with First Past The Post and lots of safe seats every vote here can matter.

Against that like much of Europe our Parliament is more consensual rather than confrontation because parties have to work with each other instead of winner takes all. So don't expect any paradigm shifts.


If you like numbers and permutations then Irish election counts are a great spectator sport.

The fact that we have frequent recounts shows how just how much every vote counts.


As Ben Brisco said after ten days of re-counting and re-checking ballot papers "the agony and the ex-TD."

dxhound2005

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Vote Early.

Vote Often

I'll give Early my number two. But I never liked that Often one.

JJayoo

Good of the green party now to litter the place with big plastic signs that will end up in landfill....��

Quantum Erasure

Make Ireland Grand Again

buried

If your not in you can't bin

mikemac2

pure.conya wrote: »

apparently anybody that registered to vote after 15/02/2019 you're not eligible to vote in this upcoming election, you have until Thurs week (Jan 23rd) to make sure you're definitely on the register in time to vote, not that our votes make much difference really at the end of the day, but if this is another way for Fine Gael to further manipluate the process well then feic that

Ah the conspiracy theories

If you are not on the register in 2020 the only person to blame is yourself

For years I listened to people telling me elections were on Thursday and Friday to stop college students travelling home and now it's a Saturday still something else is the matter

And OP these are managed by local authorities and FG isn't even the biggest party at local level

Beanntraigheach

More Tweedle Dum, or back to Tweedle Dee.
Why bother?

Badly Drunk Boy

You can check here to see if you're registered.

Dank Janniels

The Locals +Euros were held in May so if you could vote then I assume you can vote in Feb?

Sephiroth_dude

Mod

Move from After Hours, better off in here.

GNWoodd

Yes It is so efficient to have Local Authority staff having to trawl through every addition made since Feb 2019 and having to reprocess each and every one, when the most appropriate date for a GE would simply have been a week later utilising the new Register. And the people are being asked to trust this party with resolving big ticket items like Health.?

pure.conya

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Mod

Move from After Hours, better off in here.

is it really though?

martingriff

Dank Janniels wrote: »

The Locals +Euros were held in May so if you could vote then I assume you can vote in Feb?

I would have presumed you are right

This election has been known to happen early this year since June of last year. If people were not proactive to make sure they were registered to vote before now that is on them and not some party. Take some personal responsibility I thought people did not want our representatives hand holding them on everything

GNWoodd

It is the ( now defunct ) government that should have taken responsibility by holding the GE after the coming into effect of the new register.What difference would an extra week have made ? It is the thousands of man hours that have to be put into the process now to update the system as well as additional voter involvement in confirming their inclusion which should be a given seeing as the forms were filled in within the last eleven months