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Somebody from the Council comes round every year knocking on doors updating the electoral register. Somebody must have told them that you had emigrated so your name was taken off the register.
Except no-one has ever called to the door of the house to update the register and other siblings who are absent from the local area, still retain the right to vote.
Is that sufficient? I would think the person checking the register would, at the very least, have to call to the house of the person in question and verify what they had been told was true.It's most likely a neighbour told them you had emigrated and emigrants do not have the right to vote...yet
Delighted to see this happening. Constituencies are set up on the basis of the electoral register (as well as CSO returns), when people aren't living there it gives an incorrect picture of population and skews the voting - 5 seat constituencies that should be 4 seaters remain 5 seaters etc.
It's particularly prevalent amongst people living in cities (primarily Dublin) to keep their "home" address for voting and shouldn't happen. The whole register needs to be cleaned up.
It's not exactly difficult to re-register.
Panathon, can you send me on your name and address so I can sue you personally for wasting time with such a question?
It's most likely a neighbour told them you had emigrated and emigrants do not have the right to vote...yet
Leo, as a moderator, I would expect more. The question may be deemed a waste of time by you, but that is an extremely snide, brow-beating response. It is a legitimate question from my perspective and if a person can be ridiculed by a moderator for asking a question on these forums, then the entire premise of 'askaboutmoney.com' is on a slow road to nowhere.
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