Its all over. The candidates can lie in this morning as its now the turn of the political hacks who all across the country will be turning up to the count centres across the 43 constituencies to start tallying the Presidential Election. The boxes will be opened at 9am when the votes will be sorted and tallied. Then the Votes for the presidential election will be sorted. Once sorted the votes will be counted and the result sent to Dublin. We wont have...
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland have launched a consultation on their Broadcasting Code on Referenda and Election Coverage (PDF). While it contains all the usual stuff on fair and equal access and the ban on political advertisements, it also upholds the Moratorium as applied at the General Election earlier this year. While reading through the draft code, I came upon an issue, should the same Moratorium be applied to Referenda and Elections? In the case of elections I can...
You may read in the papers and on the internet that Fingal County Council have nominated Senator David Norris for the Presidency. Unfortunately for Senator Norris, this nomination will not count towards the four he needs. This is because the Election has not yet been called and therefore nominations cannot be made. This is covered under the Presidential Elections Act 1993. Under Section 16 of the act a Council is given the right to nominate a candidate. The only...
Here are the first tally results for the Cultural and Education Panel: 1. Gilroy Lab 157 2. Byrne FF 129 3. O Murchu FF 105 4. Clune FG 103 5. Walsh FF 85 6. Mullins FG 77 7. McCartin FG 68 8. Ormonde FF 66 9. Tormey FG 49 10. Quinlan FG 47 11. Boyhan IND 44 12. Kennedy FG 32 13. Hogan FG 27 14. Irish FG 25 15. Quinn FG 23 16. Delaney FG 16 17. O’Dea...
So tonight its all about the preparation for the tally tomorrow. I have to be in the concert hall in Cork City Hall. I shall be doing the tally for Cork South Central but Cork North Central will be counted in the same hall. I will be trying to keep people updated on both counts on twitter. Keep an eye on the #tags #CNC and #CSC Check out Mamanpoulet.com for more ways to follow the counts tomorrow. Also there...
There have been a few questions asked about the Election Broadcasting Moratorium which is changing this year in comparison to previous elections. This year, broadcasters will be allowed to cover the election up until 2pm on Thursday. From the BAI Guidance Radio and television broadcasters shall observe a moratorium on coverage of an election. The moratorium will operate from 2pm on the day before the poll takes place and throughout the day of the poll itself until polling stations...
Image via CrunchBase While procrastinating I cam across some really interesting youtube videos concerning the UK Election. So I decided to post a few of them. First up is a viral from the Independent. I really like and points out the faults with all three parties. The Truth Behind the UK Election I also enjoyed Yahoo’s look at what people on the street think of the election. Total Politics put together a video encouraging people to vote. Its a...
Image via Wikipedia I haven’t yet blogged about the general election in the UK. For me this has been one of the most interesting ones to watch. The rise of Liberal Democrats is amazing to see, and the polls are all over the place. The only thing for certain is that Labour will not win the popular vote. That is where watching UK elections get boring. No matter haw much you play with swing calculators and polls the Lib...
Keep up to date on the results from the German Federal Election that took place today! The action will kick off at 5pm over on scibblelive or below! Tag your tweets with #germanelection for them to appear!
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