New Electoral Register Riddled With Errors...

**Peadar** · 27/11/2006, 10:25 AM

Local councils around the country may reportedly have made up to 300,000 errors in compiling the new electoral register.

The Irish Independent says an investigation it conducted has found that there are still at least 80,000 discrepancies in the voter list, and possibly up to 300,000.

Tens of thousands of eligible voters are reportedly still missing from the register, while the numbers registered in some counties exceed their adult populations.

I know that in my family home, 3 people were removed from the register, despite having the correct information sent to the Co. Council.
I had to submit the form again.
5 people on the original form and only 2 appear on the register.
That's a fair amount of incompetence.

**BohsPartisan** · 27/11/2006, 10:34 AM

Makes you wonder, what with some of the constituency boundaries being redrawn and now this, are they getting election tips from the Americans?

**pete** · 27/11/2006, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

That's a fair amount of incompetence.

I don't think the politicians can be blamed for this as its the local authorities who compiling the records.

I think needs to be complete overhaul in the way people added & removed from register. Seems too open to fraud that you just apply on piece of paper. I don't know if I am still registered at family home. I have vote in dublin but was never asked where i was transferring the vote from. This should centralised other will have people who have votes in every county.

**BohsPartisan** · 27/11/2006, 12:08 PM

I was still registered at home at the last election local elections. I recieved Polling cards to my parents house in Navan and my own House in Drogheda. Possible I got them to a few locations in Dublin too.

**Poor Student** · 27/11/2006, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

I was still registered at home at the last election local elections. I recieved Polling cards to my parents house in Navan and my own House in Drogheda. Possible I got them to a few locations in Dublin too.

Vote early, vote often.

**passinginterest** · 27/11/2006, 12:15 PM

You can check where your registered to vote/if your on the register online at www.checktheregister.ie, I had great fun this morning checking myself and family and friends! Too much time on my hands...

**dahamsta** · 27/11/2006, 12:16 PM

My gf received a letter at her old address the other day, saying that she was going to be removed from the register, despite being on the one we were all told to check online recently with the current, correct address. WTF are they doing like? Is she on it or isn't she?

adam

**anto1208** · 27/11/2006, 1:05 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

My gf received a letter at her old address the other day, saying that she was going to be removed from the register, despite being on the one we were all told to check online recently with the current, correct address. WTF are they doing like? Is she on it or isn't she?

adam

she should sign the one sent to her old address to say i no longer live here .

they are collecting up all info and checking it. she is allready registered in the new house so she needs to cancel the old one .

**dahamsta** · 27/11/2006, 3:21 PM

I don't think the letter provided for that, but I'll forward anyway ta.

**John83** · 27/11/2006, 3:27 PM

I think anto's right. It sounds like your girlfriend is on the list twice Adam.

**dahamsta** · 27/11/2006, 3:35 PM

If she is, I probably am too, but I don't have access to mail that goes to my old gaff*, what happens in my situation? Trip to the Garda station?

adam

* Dublin-based absentee landlords Denis English and Liam Hurley, you do not want to rent from these guys.

**John83** · 27/11/2006, 3:41 PM

Go to the appropriate county council website. They have their register of electors up there. You can enter your name and address and check. If you're on incorrectly, you email them.

Dun Laoire/Rathdowne is registerofelectors@dlrcoco.ie if that's any help.

**dahamsta** · 27/11/2006, 4:17 PM

I already said I'd checked that.

Apparently the notice can be ignored: the address on the notice will be deleted, the address on the electronic register will remain.

adam

**pete** · 27/11/2006, 5:07 PM

Surprisingly enough I have been removed from family address. Not at old Dublin address either so hurrah for Cork C C & Dublin City Council.

How difficult would a centralised system based on RSI numbers so? If you apply for vote at new address you have to prove old & they just move. Every one gets a RSI number when they 15-16 anyway...

**BohsPartisan** · 27/11/2006, 6:39 PM

Everyone gets PPSN (RSI) at birth nowadays. Only thing is the database with the PPSN's doesn't always have the correct address. People don't always think of informing the department of Social and Family affairs if they move house and change of address only becomes apparant then if someone is making a claim.

**John83** · 27/11/2006, 7:30 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

I already said I'd checked that.

Apparently the notice can be ignored: the address on the notice will be deleted, the address on the electronic register will remain.

adam

Oops, missed that. Yeah, sounds like a plan.

**Macy** · 28/11/2006, 7:42 AM

Originally Posted by pete

How difficult would a centralised system based on RSI numbers so? If you apply for vote at new address you have to prove old & they just move.

Pity we didn't have people going door to door to every household in the state in the last year. They could've collected voter registration forms to be checked off against the register.

**dahamsta** · 28/11/2006, 9:41 AM

I wasn't sure that was a good idea at the time and I'm still not sure. The census is almost as important as the register, and it's critical to keep it separate from all other processes. If you link it to implicitly to the register, there's going to be a perception in some people's minds that the link is explicit, and that's not a good perception from the POV of either initiative (anonymity, voter trust).

Plus it's a slippery slope, if you run the register the same time as the census, some other department will want the census bureau to do something next time around, and before you know it you have An Post delivering your junk mail direct, if you know what I mean.

adam

**Ash** · 29/11/2006, 1:25 PM

Just checked the website and I'm down for an address I haven't lived
at for about 4 years. Luckily its only up the road from my parents house
and we know the new owners so should be no problem if a voting card
come to that address.

Sent in a few forms with current address ages ago as local politicians
were going door to door with them.

Also, my Mam is registered under the old address, while my Dad is under
the current address and I'm fairly sure they're still living together !!!