Local and European ballot papers in North Dublin this morning
Anyone?
Pic via Eoin O’Malley
Meanwhile…
Advice from our local @fiannafailparty councillor on re-employment day. You just can't make it up !!! 😒 #clondalkin #localelection2019 @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/1h9TIfoyqy
— fosi (@fosicards) May 24, 2019
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I thought we weren’t supposed to take photos?
Somebody should write a monograph on the use of the word “supposed” in this country.
+1
Amazing how well his writings on Irish life resonate even 50-odd years after his death.
That’s supposed to be a great bit of writing.
‘the domestic password in the endemic conspiracy of petty lawlessness’
top drawer old boy
If it’s empty it’s ok. You can’t take a photo showing how you voted.
Which is thick because you can tell anyone you want any way you want.
Roger. Thanks.
With a peann luaidhe.
#Nocivilwarshirts
I voted up to number 7 for EP elections, 6 for local elections. Is it just me or are there more loons on the ballot this year?
Is Broadsheet backing Gemma for Europe or do they just feel she’s more Presidential material?
Full of loons – especially the MEPs (Dublin region).
I went all the way to 19 – just to put the crazy anti-abortion fellow last.
and filled in all the numbers for local candidates..
And in doing so you’ve also prevented anyone tampering with it. If boxes are left blank then the ballot paper could have other preferences added. Not that that would happen in Ireland. Adding voters to the electoral register is far easier especially when they’re dead postal voters.
She probably be better material for a good psychiatrist.
I spoilt my vote this morning…
I took it out for a lovely breakfast, followed by a lovely walk around the park..
hehehe
You spoiled it, but at least you also exercised it.
You’re on fire today Nigel.
Ah that’s lovely, did you get to put it in the box?
All four of them! Big spender! …although, most places have three…. I’ll get me coat!
All this votin’ an’ pencillin’ will have me worn out later – only a post-election cocktail in the local will replenish my weary democratic soul.
This.
Except I voted at 8am.
So my posts today may be a bit blurry! {{hic}}
I went to number 10 on the EP one as I couldn’t stand the thought of GO’D or Gilroy getting in
I used mine to resign as UK Prime Minister and leader of the British Conservative Party.
Gemma O’Doherty 1
Ben Gilroy 2
G’OD in Shankill:
https://twitter.com/DumbartonOne/status/1129085116272324609
What an absolute fupping lunatic O’ Doherty is.
wow, bonkers
“There’s a haze over Shankill over chemtrails.” Ah fecking hell.. she needs help.
Ah, that lady is not well :(
Gemma, is that you?
Well that explains an awful lot
I watched “Chernobyl” on Sky last night.
Obviously that got rid of any lingering tendency I might have had to give my 16th and 17th preferences to Solidarity/People before Profit.
Coincidentally, I was just listening to a doco about Wells Fargo on my way to the polling station. That had a similar effect on me, obviously.
People really will complain about anything – how can you have an issue with someone jokingly saying vote early vote often?
Here’s an interesting use of the phrase from a Dáil debate in 1933:
Thomas Kelly, Fianna Fáil: “…personation would be no harm. It is a good turn. If a man is dead and you knew the opinions he held while alive, what harm would it be to vote for him? If a poor man is sick in hospital and not able to get out, surely it is a good turn to see that his vote is registered. If he has gone away and his neighbours know his opinions, I do not see any harm in personation. I think I encouraged a lot of that class of thing in my day. […]
General Richard Mulcahy, Fine Gael: “Are we to take these as instructions to Fianna Fáil candidates in the Dublin elections?
Kelly: Yes; vote early and often
Reference: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1933-05-17/25/
That’s a remarkable debate. More remarkable is that it causes comment, but not too much uproar on the Cumann na nGaedheal benches.
Thanks for sharing that, TheQ47.
Welcome. It’s good, isn’t it?
at least i did the right thing and made it easier for the missis to divorce me.
and my foreign divorce to be recognized, apparently I’m still married here,
raises hairs on my back to write that
Beside Europe, what other stuff are you voting on over there today Janet?
This is my first time voting here in France; I haven’t taken citizenship so it’s only in municipal and european elections, but i am quite excited.
Have 34 different parties/lists to choose from, bit mind bloggling.
I didn’t know you had been married Janet. Somehow the divorce makes you sexier to me.
Janet’s a DILF?
I’d roide her sideways if I was let.
who says you’re not let ;)
NURSE!!!!
THE SCREENS!!!!!
yeah back when I was young and knew it all I skipped down the aisle ;)
so Lushie apart from amendments local council and European parliament,
People before profit for me
The far right populists appear to be failing in the Netherlands. Exit polls have Forum for Democracy in third on 11% and Wilders’ Eurosceptic, anti-muslim Freedom Party on just 4%. Nothing official until Sunday of course.
Beside Europe, what other stuff are you voting on over there today Janet?
This is my first time voting here in France; I haven’t taken citizenship so it’s only in municipal and european elections, but i am quite excited.
Have 34 different parties/lists to choose from, bit mind bloggling and there are some distinct bizarros amongst them.
Sadly it looks as though our friend Marine is going to do rather well.
yeah she’s gaining ground all right,
sorry my reply seems to be above there on your voting Q
Thanks J.
I would appear to have posted twice; still not au fait with the comments section technology.
Big bisous from a very wet Saint Émilion.
Grosses bissouuuuussss
I read that the Aussies had their election on a Saturday and they have BBQs, etc. at the voting centres. They even have a democracy sausage. Sounds tasty. If even we had the “I voted!” stickers it would be nice. Just to make a bigger deal of it all.
There’s a democracy sausage-fest in Mayo if that helps.
I got an “I voted” sticker in Dublin this morning. Do they not have them in the sticks?
I’m in Dublin City.
They do indeed.
The ones in Kerry say ‘I voted 200 times today’ duly witnessed by one Garda.
+1
Went to 5 in the EU (Dublin)
4 in the local (Kimmage Rathmines)
And Yes
Can also confirm less than 40% Turn out in box 321
One thing to flag
So ye won’t have a little shock when the EU tallies break
FG are going to come in strong in Dublin
Yes they have a strong Constituency here
That has gotten stronger
And they will jump a good 10 percentage points from 2014
But Durkan and Fitz are side by side on the ballot paper
1 and 2 together or 2 and 1
That will do two things for sure
– Limit transfers to other candidates as loyalists will go straight to 1 and 2 and if they fancy anyone else they have to travel the pencil up and down looking. And if you saw the rollout: Andrews at the very top and White at the very bottom. Cuffe and Daly might get a scratch.
Gilroy and Higgins might also benefit.
And
– award the pair of them a good few freebies: strong imagery and boldly standing out like a double thick highlighted stripe
And anyone who has ever tallied or hung around a 1st Count will tell you this is a thing
Appearance and Location on a lengthy ballot
Most of them unknown and unrecognisable Independents with shabby pics don’t get noticed as the voter looks for someone to add a preference to
I should have ran meself as I would have been sandwiched between Durkan and Fitz
And those accidental Prefs would have made me look a bit decent
In a big total poll of circa half a million votes
There’s a few thousand there to be got just on location and appearance on the ballot
Can’t wait till tomorrow now
Expect Labour and Greens to do well in the locals folks
Soc Ds to pick up in the areas they also have a National Presence
And a big return to the Big 3
BTW Aontú won’t be worrying anyone
I love your insight to matters like these and other legal ins and outs, thanks Frilly
No thanks needed Deliverli
I love this
I’m in me element at elections
Especially cranky ones
The next 48 hours is like one long orgasm
I haven’t had a day off since Easter so I was telling pals I was going to stay home tomorrow and monitor the feeds and track the tallies
But shur’ who am I kidding
I’ll probably be in Punchestown before the boxes open with a clipboard and me big calculator for the collating
LOL – any chance there will be an end to that embarrassing spectacle of winning candidates being lifted aloft by their faithful!? So cringy! -Enjoy your day regardless.
You won’t see it with the locals anyway
And I think Alan Kelly’s carry on will make newly elected officials think twice
But you know the Returning Officer could insist to desist
from the candidates and or their agents and supporters
I know for a fact one Returning Officer has murder when there’s hooping and wha’howing even though she rings the candidates days ahead to ask them to conduct themselves a bit more genteelly
Maybe the solution is to have them all up on a stage like in the UK
And not in a mosh pit with lads sipping all day since they arrived at the Count Centre with the dawn chorus
But it does make great telly tho’
1-5 in EU
1. Clare D.
2. Aisling McNiffe
3. Lynn B.
4. Gillian Brien
5. Eilis Ryan
blankety blank rest of field
1-4 in Locals
Yes
news is saying just now that Dublin turnout is pisspoor, I suspect that’s bad news :(
Just back from voting and it was very busy down there with a good crowd still coming. Not quite last year’s ref kind of turn out or from the marriage ref, but better than I’d expected, considering how poor the candidates were this year.
Clare Daly got my number 1. No votes to the traditional parties if I could absolutely help it because fupp them.
found it tough voting for Clare…we need as many of herself as we can get to keep showing up the muppets & their snakey plans & clever tricks.
but she deserves a shot & who knows maybe she can be more potent over there
(unlike you know who)
Euro’s
1. Green
2. Wallace
Etc nul points
Locals
1. Indy
2. SD
3. SF but for candidate rather than Party
4. Indy
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