In your case it confirms your eligibility. But it's not you or your ilk that would have issues here. There's plenty of Nigerians or Argentine's or Finns who would have a higher burden. As they should.
But your birth cert does not in a lot of cases show your eligibility. Perhaps proof of your place on the foreign births register could well prove to be an option. But again there's ways and means why this may not have been done in the past and yet people may remain eligible for citizenship. Again, the passport comes in here as the cast-iron guarantee of your eligibility for those born outside of the island of Ireland.
The priority is to open the franchise up to other citizens without making a mockery of the robustness of our electoral system.
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And right on cue, unionism responds to the Irish government's proposal to extend voting rights to northern-based Irish citizens and it's as depressingly uptight, defensive, resistive and disingenuous you'd expect: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39254792
First of all, nothing is to be imposed. It is simply the extension of a choice. If unionists, or anyone else in the north for that matter, wish to opt out, boycott or ignore the whole thing, they're fully free to do so and they can continue with living their lives unaffected and as normal.Originally Posted by BBC
Secondly, can unionists impose a veto on the setting up of polling stations north of the border? The Irish government could surely rent out private spaces in which to set up polling stations rather than having to rely on the provision of public spaces by the northern government, no?
Thirdly, who on earth does Tom Elliott think he is? Just because he doesn't want something, doesn't mean other people must also be deprived of it. How utterly imperious and narcissistic. For Tom, it seems that nationalists can have their rights, but just so long as those rights don't offend his unionist sensibilities...
It wouldn't surprise me if the Irish government would need permission from the NI/UK government to conduct its business there, to be honest. Apart from embassies at least. It is their country after all.
As far as I know, most absentee voting is done by post. I don't think there is anywhere that UK citizens in Ireland can 'go' to vote - they do it by post or by proxy.
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The latter point is correct in British elections.
And similarly for certain Irish citizens in Seanad elections.
Australia set up polling stations in their embassies.
Obviously not an issue for us in Belfast.
I'm just shocked it was Tom Elliot because he has always shown restraint when it comes to such matters.
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Does the Irish government/state have any diplomatic or ambassadorial-type presence or space in Belfast, or elsewhere north of the border for that matter? I'm not aware that it does.
Ha!I'm just shocked it was Tom Elliot because he has always shown restraint when it comes to such matters.
WE have office space and a residence used by our BI Council staff (in Stranmillis I think). We have no consulates for obvious political reasons; that the political reasons are from a nationalist POV rather than not wanting to upset Unionists.
I remember Reg Empey was complaining that we hadn't opened a consuulate "like we had in other UK cities". Jog on Reg!
There was talk post-GFA about setting up a Passport Office in Belfast but that went quiet.
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A postal vote would have done me fine but i sincerely hope a polling station is set up in every decent sized town in the north now. Tom Elliott can stick his opinions up his arse.
Bring Back Belfast Celtic F.C.
Well they had no objections when the Poles set them up in 2010...
or when it was used in the European elections in 2009...
or when it was used in the Polish Parliamentary elections in 2006...
http://www.bbc.com/news/10334739Originally Posted by BBC
It's almost like it was a sectarian comment from poor oul Tommy.
That may be harsh from me I mean, it's not as if he's ever said things before that would be deemed as inappropriate...
Originally Posted by BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-13323770
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I can imagine permission would probably be needed. But I highly doubt it would ever be refused. I mean they're unlikely to host it in a building on Sandy Row.
Anyway it's all moot... by the time 2025 rolls around we will have had our border poll.
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It's moot not because there'll be a united Ireland within eight years (there won't) but because the South has never given citizens outside the state the vote (and just might continue not to do so, for well established reasons). Let's see after the referendum.
Further ahead, this isn't really about precedent, more that it'll be seen as a provocative windup in way that helping Poles vote for Szczecin Council wouldn't be.
If there isn't a poll station in Sandy Row (or writ large, Bangor/ Carrick/ Banbridge/ Coleraine) is it worth getting annoyed about? Just post/ email it in.
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Except they have.
More red fish.Further ahead, this isn't really about precedent, more that it'll be seen as a provocative windup in way that helping Poles vote for Szczecin Council wouldn't be.
They are totally paranoid in the main. And hopefully by 1690 votes!
So yeah tis in Salubrious Malone/Stranmillis on Notting Hill. Incidentally you can't do street view on google on that street. But from aerial photos I would wager it's the new build at the bottom of the cul-de-sac backing onto the US consulate.
https://goo.gl/maps/fd4JreyvXsB2
See here also...
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-26341578.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/empey...fast-1.1032896
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Armagh also hosted a polling station (using booths and desks borrowed from the NI Electoral Office) for Bulgarian citizens living in the north last November so as to allow them to vote in the most recent Bulgarian presidential election: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37912120
Originally Posted by BBC
Slugger O'Toole commentator David McCann feels the referendum to extend the vote in presidential elections to northern citizens should be used as a testing ground and learning enterprise for nationalists/republicans who will be arguing for Irish unity when the time comes for that referendum: https://sluggerotoole.com/2017/03/19...e-border-poll/
Originally Posted by David McCann
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