Damien Blake written a good piece on IrishElection.com regarding his view on how to address the Electoral Register. Much of what he says has merit as a short term solution. He suggests that we scrap the register (no problem there) and rework it from scratch (again, no problem there) rather than limp on with a defective …
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The literati over at Digital Rights Ireland have a nice posting on their blog about the issues surrounding the use of PPS numbers and the overwhelming need for clarity of governance in their use to avoid ‘scope creep’. Here is the link to that post… http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/04/20/pps-numbers-and-cradle-to-grave-tracking/ Defined processes that address identified root causes, operating in the …
I had a look at the Reach Service Portal ( a central portal for citizen information). They had a helpful link to a form to register for the Register of Electors. Very helpful. My thoughts are as follows: Â If there is no standard template in existence amongst local authorities ( to the Minister’s surprise), why …
I have just come across Dick Roche’s website (www.dickroche.com). It’s not bad as politico sites go. I was particularly interested in his post re: the Electoral Register issues. To an extent it is more telling in what it lacks than what it contains. 1)Â Â Â Â Â “The use of Census Enumerators or other temporary personnel to support …
Vote loss scandal as 90%Â names are ‘wrong’Â (requires registration with www.unison.ie) OK, I am taking this headline with a small pinch of salt, not having had any visibility of the methodology used, sample size taken etc. There are lies, damn lies and statistics after all. 52.5% of cats surveyed said that they knew that ;-). Also …
I caught some of The Week in Politics last night. The video stream of the discussion can be found here (requires RealPlayer). What interested me was Noel Ahern, Junior Minister for the Environment (and sibling of our Prime Minister) seeking to distract attention from the electoral register fiasco by implying (please note that he didn’t actually say that …