{"id":338,"date":"2006-10-01T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/01\/check-if-youre-registered-to-vote-in-ireland\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T11:31:57","slug":"check-if-youre-registered-to-vote-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/check-if-youre-registered-to-vote-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Check If You’re Registered to Vote In Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

I previously wrote about how a handful of votes in a handful of constituencies<\/a> will decide the next election. I took us on a little tour of the Irish PR system<\/a>, explaining why your fourth and fifth preferences can make the difference between success or failure for a candidate. And I gave a link to a printable version of the Irish voter registration form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now I thought I’d add another tool to your voter registration kit- a link to a list of city and county councils. Click on yours and up pops a simple form to let you check if you’re currently registered<\/a>. One suggestion: this eReg system ought to have its own webpage, instead of directing you through the various county councils sites. <\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> I spoke to on official in the Franchise Section in the Department of Environment. She said that it was intended to have a one stop shop website where you could check if you were on the register anywhere in the country without having to go through your local authority. The Local Authority Computer Services Board<\/a> intends that this site should be ready by November 2006. They won’t follow through on the next step (allowing you to register, or even print out a relevant registration form) until a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I previously wrote about how a handful of votes in a handful of constituencies will decide the next election. I took us on a little tour of the Irish PR system, explaining why your fourth and fifth preferences can make the difference between success or failure for a candidate. And I gave a link to a printable version of the Irish voter registration form. Now I thought I’d add another tool to your voter registration kit- a link to a list of city and county councils. Click on yours and up pops a simple form to let you check if you’re currently registered. One suggestion: this eReg system ought to have its own webpage, instead of directing you through the various county councils sites. Update: I spoke to on official in the Franchise Section in the Department of Environment. She said that it was intended to have a one stop shop website where you could check if you were on the register anywhere in the country without having to go through your local authority. The Local Authority Computer Services Board intends that this site should be ready by November 2006. They won’t follow through on the next step (allowing you to register, or even print out a relevant registration form) until a later date.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[313,19,277,312],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ereg","tag-ireland","tag-voter-registration","tag-voter-registration-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}