The Irish Times today carries a story on page five which details a number of proposed changes to the management of the Electoral Register arising from the kerfuffle of the past two years about how totally buggered it is. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve written a little bit about this in the …
One or two of the comments (and emails) I received after the previous post here were enquiring about some stuff I’d written previously (2006 into 2007) about the state of the Irish Electoral Register. It is timely that some people visited those posts as our Local Elections are coming up in less than 18 months …
The Irish Green Party recently entered coalition with the Fianna Fail party to form a government in Ireland. As part of this coalition, we now have a Green Party TD (member of parliament) as Minister for the Environment. Today, Mr Gormley came out in favour of Electronic Voting. Well, actually that isn’t entirely correct.. he …
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Astute followers of the recent General Election in which there were a number of reports of problems with our national electoral register will doubtless be wondering where my comments on that issue might be. Rest assured that I haven’t forgotten about it and am working on collating the media reports of issues and tracking down …
A few hours ago the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland Douglas Bain, announced that electronic voting would be considered for future elections in Northern Ireland as a result of what he had seen in Scotland where e-voting was used this week for elections. Fast forward to now… the Scottish election is in a state …
Update from McGarr Solicitors McGarr Solicitors have just posted an update on the Constitutional challenge to the Electoral boundaries. The case, which was to be heard today, has been adjourned on request of the Defendants. The case is now to belisted for mention again next Tuesday (8th May). Perhaps I am overly cynical and maybe …
The good news The Minister for the Environment today announced the establishment of a Commission to review the electoral constituencies. This is exactly what he said couldn’t be done a few weeks ago, before the constitutional challenge to the current state of the constituencies was launched as the ‘final census figures weren’t in’. The figures …
RTE today have a story about the changing demographics revealed by the Census. This story mentions specifically the possible need for an additional TD in Dublin West as a result of the 8000 population growth in the area that the Census shows. RTE have, unfortunately, failed to point out the other constituencies that are under …
Interesting developments (well developments at least) over in the Hight Court… The Constitutional challenge to the Electoral boundaries will be heard next week. This isn’t really news to those of us who have been keeping an eye on mcgarrsolicitors over the past few weeks. What does it mean? Well it means that any chance of …
There is an election in the offing here in Ireland. However there are (or rather should be) some concerns still about the quality of the electoral register. Over on the IQ Network site there is a short article about the importance of timeliness of information as a measure of its quality and accuracy.. An important …