Polling Cards Mess

**pete** · 20/05/2007, 5:34 PM

Originally Posted by Saint Tom

the responsibilty does lie with the minister who's brief does include local government and the register

Good old Dick Roche. How many times does he have to mess up lose his job? The sad thing he will probably top the poll in Wicklow.

**Poor Student** · 20/05/2007, 6:46 PM

Should someone exercise two votes in different constituencies due to administrative feck up are they actually committing a crime?

**kingdom hoop** · 20/05/2007, 7:01 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

Should someone exercise two votes in different constituencies due to administrative feck up are they actually committing a crime?

Temptation is not an excuse!

**Erstwhile B�z** · 21/05/2007, 8:53 AM

Back to basics. Stamp people's hands when they vote, or dip their finger in indelible ink. Highly cost-effective as the local authority could just requisition the stamps from the local nightclubs.

**passinginterest** · 22/05/2007, 9:48 AM

Got 2 polling card myself so think I'll vote before work and again on the way home! May have gotten 3 haven't checked if I got one in Wexford yet. Problem seems to be the name of my apartment block. There's 3 blocks on my road and all used to be called Manor Villas, my landlord bought my full block years ago and changed the name to Manor Court (the others remain Villas). When I registered to vote here instead of Wexford a few months ago they seem to have come to the conclusion that 2 people with the same name and almost identical addresses exist! Either way it's a bit of a farce. I'm so tempted to try and vote twice just to see if I can get away with it.

**Poor Student** · 22/05/2007, 12:05 PM

The younger brother got a second one today. He's never lived anywhere else, never signed himself up to the register. There's no anomalies that should have led to this.

**Bald Student** · 24/05/2007, 5:38 PM

For all my talk I went along to the polling station today with my card and there was someone else's name beside my number. I'm now disenfranchised and a bit p***ed off.

**Ceirtlis** · 24/05/2007, 6:42 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

The younger brother got a second one today. He's never lived anywhere else, never signed himself up to the register. There's no anomalies that should have led to this.

Campaigners for different parties sign you up to the register if they know the names of the people in the family. I know i never signed up for the register but got called for jury service- which is done from the register- with my name and address spelled wrong.

**Poor Student** · 24/05/2007, 7:10 PM

Originally Posted by Bald Student

For all my talk I went along to the polling station today with my card and there was someone else's name beside my number. I'm now disenfranchised and a bit p***ed off.

Wasn't Student Mullet was it?

**Bald Student** · 24/05/2007, 7:22 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

Wasn't Student Mullet was it?

No it was some fella called Brian Beehan or something like that.

The thing is, I checked the register again when I got home and I'm deffo on it so I'm going in again tonight to try to sort it out.

**Poor Student** · 24/05/2007, 7:26 PM

Originally Posted by Bald Student

No it was some fella called Brian Beehan or something like that.

The thing is, I checked the register again when I got home and I'm deffo on it so I'm going in again tonight to try to sort it out.

How is the register arranged anyway? Is it by address or alphabetical order? I could see a second person with the exact same name as me 5 or 10 places above my name when she was crossing me off. Yet I could only see my brother, who got two cards, on it once.

**Bald Student** · 24/05/2007, 7:30 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

How is the register arranged anyway? Is it by address or alphabetical order? I could see a second person with the exact same name as me 5 or 10 places above my name when she was crossing me off. Yet I could only see my brother, who got two cards, on it once.

When I went in it was by number but I don't know really.

**Poor Student** · 24/05/2007, 7:36 PM

Originally Posted by Bald Student

When I went in it was by number but I don't know really.

I meant how do they arrange the numbers. I was clumped together with my family but I could see the names around my group were different surnames except for my doppledanger 10 numbers above me. Just a bit weird.

**Bald Student** · 24/05/2007, 7:38 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

I meant how do they arrange the numbers. I was clumped together with my family but I could see the names around my group were different surnames except for my doppledanger 10 numbers above me. Just a bit weird.

I think that's done by address. When I went it the different desks all had the names of the various roads at them.

**Poor Student** · 24/05/2007, 7:44 PM

Then where's my second voting card, damnit? They can't get anything right.

**Schumi** · 24/05/2007, 8:58 PM

Maybe the names are arranged, within the areas, by the order in which they're added to the register?

**pete** · 24/05/2007, 9:01 PM

Anyone think FF have been deliberately targetting non-FFers to remove them from the register? By the time they realise the "mistake" its too late & they can't vote for the opposition in protest... I suppose the fault in that conspiracy is they would need to be capable of organisation...

**Bald Student** · 24/05/2007, 9:04 PM

Originally Posted by Bald Student

For all my talk I went along to the polling station today with my card and there was someone else's name beside my number. I'm now disenfranchised and a bit p***ed off.

Success!

I went back, armed with a printout of my name on the online register, and made the man look through the lists on all the different desks and he found me.