Ah now dahamsta, that's an image none of us need, especially shortly after logging on first thing in the morning at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
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Ah now dahamsta, that's an image none of us need, especially shortly after logging on first thing in the morning at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
With that attitude, we may as well wait until November, when the new Brussels MEP term begins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Once the day for the results arrives, they should be released promptly, not leaving the electorate and candidates wondering if votes have been distributed, and counts taking up to 2 days* to complete. 3,000 incorrect votes can swing a poll. It's mad!!
*more if it's a general election.
I'm personally delighted, not just because of another Labour gain, but another right wing nutjob gets the boot. I'm sure she'll carry on talking nonsense like the MMR causing autism and the like...Quote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
After spitting the dummy after the first count with his missing wheelie bin nonsense, and only then did he take his ball home.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
It would probably help if sore losers who can't believe they polled so low didn't come up with suprious reasons for a recount! We would've had the North West results probably on Sunday night/ early hours Monday, or before lunch on Monday even if they had suspended the count.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Votes went missing in the evoting trials, with whole booths going missing. They even kept the random selection of surpluses when that could've been one of the few benefits of evoting to get true proportionality. 3000 votes is only about 0.6% of the ballot.
I'll repeat, whats the rush?Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
see, i knew :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
anyway - FF get 3 in the Euros - all this talk about the country and people still vote for them
of course you can have your excuses in - "its a Euro elections so Im voting for pro-europe candidates", etc or "local issues are different"
rubbish, FF are corrupt right down to the bone
In my country - Westmeath -- they have given a huge support to FF - despite Mullingar hospital downgrading, and the town hasnt got anything goping fopr it at the moment (athlone though is thriving!).
I cant understand it - then people vote for FG and they will do exactly the same when they get to power.
Anyway good to see Higgins (a no to lisbon voter) do so well - kind of shows up a lot of the pro - lisbon rubbish spouted
Sorry if i go on about it - but I still cant get my head round the fact that 2 out of every ten Irish people are ................well you know what I think!!!!
anyway thank god for football!!!
For the European elections they did not start the count until Sunday as they are not allowed to release the 1st count results until 9pm Snday when all the polls across Europe close. Waiting until Monday for result including rechecking votes seems fairly quick to me. Waiting until next week would be slow.
I had a dream last night that Ganley had stolen my sheets and duvet covers. I jumped out of bed and ran through the house shouting, "Ganley you f*****" then realised I was sleep running.
Wonder was he trying to make Clan headgear or just looking for something to hide under.
Dingdong the devil is dead, in Ireland anyway. Britain just got 2 new ones.
It will be an interesting debrief when he goes back to his alleged paymasters and explains how he didn't fool enough of the dumb Irish to fall for his deceit and their agenda.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Sadly I don't think we've seen the last of him. I think his retirement will probably turn out to be about as enduring as one of Sinead O'Connors.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
Even if he stays away from politics you just know some *£*&%££** in TV3 or RTE 'light entertainment' is scratching their chin as we speak thinking of a new angle for next seasons Apprentice or celebrity banisters.
Crap split here. Keep it on topic or you'll be banned from this forum.
Just read in the Wicklow Times that the county council vote counting was delayed by three hours because they had to seperate the European votes from the CC votes.
I thought this was just because they would've had to seperate the Euro boxes from the others but then I remembered when voting, at least in the polling station I went to, the CC voting papers were put in the SAME box as the Euro ones, while there was a seperate box for the Bray Town Council votes.
So the delay was down to seperating the contents inside the boxes from each other. Am I the only who thinks this is madness? There were two boxes, why couldn't one be for the Euros and the other for CC/TC votes?
I'm surprised it didn't take longer when I think about it.
I'd say the simple reason is because people would still make mistakes about which box they put their ballots in and so they'd pretty much have to wait for all boxes to be open anyway in order to check for ballots that went in the wrong box.
Didn't see any differences between the boxes on offer when I was voting, and none was pointed out; I just put all three together anyway.
Like superfrank, I had to put the CC vote in with the European one, makes no sense.
It's a simple solution really, the three slips have three different colours so just have three boxes the same colour as each slip and then people will put them in the relevant box.
You're vastly over estimating the voting public.Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
Add in extra costs for procuring, storing and transporting 3 seperate (or 2 seperate depending on area) boxes and compare it to a measly couple of hours spent seperating them and I think they made the right call
There was a separate box for the Dublin South by-election ballots so there is some inconsistancy. Dublin South is spread over two local authority areas though so there may have been extra hassle involved in separating them.
They have to unfold and pile the ballots anyway, so seperating out European ballots isn't actually that much more work.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Also, it avoids mistakes that could disenfranchise people who put the slips in the wrong box. While that could happen with the Town council, if a paper is the wrong box it's at least in the same count centre (presuming they'd still count it), whereas the European elections are in a totally different centre, with a different count start date.
Finally, it's only 3 bloody hours anyway.
Just take the guts out of the electronic machines, they've cost us a hundred times all of that already, might as well sing for their supper. Nobody wants them anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Same in Dublin Central.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
The European results in Northern Ireland are quite interesting. Allister's TUV polled quite strongly. If these votes translate into Westminister and Stormont elections then the Unionst vote is split roughly into three large blocks. If all three sides contend all constituencies then South Belfast will probably stay nationalist and SF may even nick one or two other constituencies on a highly split vote like Belfast North. In Stormont it could leave SF the biggest party. Who would be First Minister in that event? Could the parliament function without the TUV engaging in coalition? Or will they just fade away like the UKUP?