Random Thoughts

[astfgyl]

All I'm saying is that you could have given them auld ones practical advice on how to make sure they have their say in the referendum, rather than scaring them with computer talk.

No I couldn't have done because the deadline was last Wednesday and the first inkling these poor bastards had that they won't be part of the Brave New World was when their voting card (which they've long since registered for years ago, until they were suddenly removed from voting for anything other than the presidential election until they went online and confirmed their ppsn and (bear in mind these cunts have never even seen an Internet, never mind a computer)) didn't turn up.   

What has been done here is criminal and if anyone is slow enough to use their general political persuasion to convince themselves otherwise well then I actually feel sorry for them.

This is not left v right stuff at all, this is the government of Ireland committing a criminal offence against the populace. You'd be a fool not to see it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

They can still check the register to see if they're actually on it or not, and they may also yet receive the card by the post. Not having received your voting card has never been proof you're not registered and you don't even need it to vote, as long as you know where your polling station is. But if, having actually checked the register it turns out them auld ones were removed from it, then they can and should kick up a fuss. You could even help them. But either way, a lot of concrete steps omitted prior to the leap to Brave New World.

[astfgyl]

No they aren't removed. The craic is that everyone is registered to vote in the presidential election but omitted from other ones until they sort they themselves on that site. That's how mine was until I confirmed my ppsn and same for the wife and then I got the brother to check and his is the same as well.

Now I'm never willing to discount the chance that I might just be Paranoid and suffering from delusion (delusions of grandeur are my favourite though) so if anyone here hasn't updated their stuff and still got their card no bother then I'll eat my hat etc

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

There has been much confusion due to departmental language, but look at this screenshot of my entry on the register, which I've just checked now. Beside 'Election Type' it only says 'Presidential', but when I clicked on the "i" for more info button, it brought up the panel confirming that if you can vote in the Presidential election you can also vote in all the others. Indeed, you'll see that the presidential and the referendum registers are, contrary to what the wording may make it sound like, one and the same: "Referendum or Presidential." You'll also see that, since I haven't voted in Ireland in over 10 years, PPSN has a big red ? beside it. Yet I'm still entitled to vote in every category.



My impression is that incompetent departments used confusing language, then certain folk grabbed the wrong end of the stick and ran wild with it, but actually everything is grand, or at least no more fecked than usual.

[astfgyl]

Unreal! So it's paranoia then? Well thank fuck for that I can get locked in peace 

Actually not even sarcasm btw

Edit: does this mean everyone will get a voting card then?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Far as I know I haven't received a voting card to my own auld one's place since 2012, but that's the address I'm still registered under. I'm actually fairly surprised I'm still on the register tbh, technically I shouldn't be.

[astfgyl]

I was removed from the register years ago and had to reapply and as far as I gathered it had happened again. If I'm wrong I'm hopefully wrong

[Trev]

I haven't gotten a card for the last few referendums, but I'm still on the register and always just head along with my id and there's never been an issue

[astfgyl]

Does that mean I could have been voting all along?

Well it doesn't because I presented myself at the voting station with my driving licence at the last general election and was told at the door that I couldn't vote. So perhaps it does work, but certainly not every time

[astfgyl]

Also, I'm never voting for von der leyen or gutierrez or ghebeysus again. They've had their chance

[John Kimble]

Anyone else has a missus that watches Love Island and all that guff? I do.

Was watching it in the background the other night. Horrific people altogether. I was imagining a scenario where someone offers me, without comeback or consequence, an opportunity to flick a switch and I could kill everyone in the show. I would think of myself as being a moral person, for the most part, but I reckon I could live with that.

[Thorn]

Thankfully no, the adverts for it are enough to have you effing and blinding at the tele

[astfgyl]

My daughter watches it but kicked me out after 5 minutes listening to me giving out yards about it and now I'm not welcome

[Giggles]

Do Irish people abroad shout into their phones as loud as the foreigners do here on public transport?
Lad across the way from me roaring into his phone, and it in his hand on speaker. Sounds like a normal conversation, I'd hate to see him having an argument 

[astfgyl]

Don't cut your speed with custard powder lads