Polling Clerks: Why are these jobs not given to Unemployed not retired c servants etc

Re: Polling Clerks: Why are these jobs not given to Unemployed not retired c servants

I think €640 for 1 days work is way too much, even if the day is 15 hours long. Make the pay the average hourly rate of say €15 per hour.
That would be more realistic. The 2 people sitting at the table I went to must have been on a go-slow it took them that long to issue me with the ballot papers.

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ParkLane said:

Brought our passports to the polling station yesterday. Neither of us were asked for I.D. other than the elderly gentleman saying "were we together and could we identify each other"?

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That is just too funny.............

My grandmother often used to spend the day voting. She was brought around to different polling stations courtesy of a well known party in the era before id's etc.

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sandrat said:

I'm raging I missed out on the email to do the count, sadly I was on maternity leave when it went around,

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Just curious - email from who to who? Are you working in a local authority?

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Complainer said:

Just curious - email from who to who? Are you working in a local authority?

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I was curious about that too. As far as I understand, Sandrat is a Civil Servant. I have never seen an email going around the civil service looking for people to man polling stations. All we get is a reminder about limitations on Civil Servants being active in politics.