The sorting of ballots for the Vocational Panels for elections to Seanad Eireann has been completed in Leinster House. It is expected that the first count will get underway at around 2:15pm. From the sorting of votes we know the following: 1073 ballots recieved 4 rejected Valid poll 1069 The first panel to be counted will be the Culture and Educational. This is a 5 seat panel and there are 18 candidates. This is split as 13 on the...
Image via Wikipedia Last night I attended the Hustings in UCC for the National Executive Elections which takes place this weekend in Charleville. All the candidates gave good speeches and so it will be a hard choice on Saturday on who to vote for. The candidates are as follows: President Eric Keane – Clare YFG Vice President Alan Gallagher – Dublin South YFG Bríd Murphy – Cork South-West YFG National Panel Bernard Aherne – University College Dublin YFG Graham...
Today on my lunch break, I went Colm Burkes European Election Campaign launch on Patrick St. What a great idea that was. Really it was. By bringing politics back on the street he got a brilliant reaction. He was interacting with people and bringing politics to them. More politics should be conducting campaigns like this. I missed the speeches and that but a friend informed me that all speakers were on top form. This is what campaigning in, European,...
Via Iain Dale’s Diary “Electoral Cleansing” is a new phrase in INternational Politics but it is whats happening in Zimbabwe. Check out friendsofzim.com to help ensure a vote that allows no intimidation and will allow a free and fair election. Do Donate to help! If you have a blog please post it too or email to friends!
I will be blogging soon about the London Mayoral and Assembly Elections as I am always watching BBC and reading certain blogs that are always on about! But before I do I found this on Ian Dale’s Diary today, its an excllent tool to see who you should vote for in the Mayoral Elections. My Results are as follows: Alan Craig (Christian Peoples Alliance / Christian Party) Matt O’Connor (English Democrats) Boris Johnson (Conservatives) Richard Barnbrook (BNP) Winston Mckenzie...
Well Poland and Switzerland have gone to the polls today in well reported elections. Both are highly contested and will change their countries if polling figures are correct. Firstly to Poland. People are casting their votes today in Dublin, Cork and Limerick as well as flying home to vote in the pivotal election which could see one of the Kaczynski twins loose his job (Prime Minister). The Kaczynski Twins have become an embarrassment to young Poles, especially those living...
The rest of it Rigging the Irish Election Part 3 – Manipulate the media and blogs – True Voice Rigging the Irish Election Part 4 – Embargo day Rigging the Irish Election Part 5 – Election day – Traffic Module And its over
Damien has posted the 2nd part to the series! An excellent post on tracking candidates!!! Rigging the Irish Election Part 2 – Profile your candidates and the opposition 3 to go. I’m saying that by the next general election, major parties in Ireland will be using technology based on this post.
Wow, two days of blog posts, I’m back as a serious blogger!!! But anyway back to the title. Gordon Brown, has said ‘no’ to an election. Was that a good decision? Due to the comments of the ‘young turks’, Balls et al, saying Labour where on a election footing and that. This draw back from the brink could have long term damage for Brown and Labour in general as it did for O’Callaghan. The Tories will definitely gain from...
Damien has started a 5 Part blog series on Rigging the Irish Election. The first part is out and its brilliant!! Rigging the Irish Election Part 1 – Create cells of organisers Ill post up the rest when he posts them! They are supposed to be cynical and manipulative, but having being involved in the recent elections I think a system like this isn’t far off.
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