200,000-plus spoilt votes in Irish presidential election

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Concerns raised over 200,000-plus spoilt votes in Irish presidential election​

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/...ilt-votes-in-irish-presidential-election.html

Ireland’s political leaders have said a response is needed to the 213,738 spoilt votes in Ireland’s presidential election.

It represents 13% of all votes cast on Friday, and a more than tenfold increase on the number of spoilt votes in the last presidential election, when there were 18,438 invalid ballots.

Ireland’s electoral commission has said there “will clearly be a need for deeper and further reflection” about why there were so many spoilt ballots in the presidential election.

An Coimisiun Toghchain said the number of spoilt ballots “is significantly higher than normal and it is clear that some people chose to deliberately spoil their votes”.

In the Dublin Mid-West constituency, 21% of votes cast were spoilt.

Many had an “x” or slash drawn through all three candidates, or the words “spoiled” or “spoilt” written on the slip.

There were also a significant number of spoilt votes with anti-Government messages on them, including “no democracy”, “EU puppets” and “no from me”.

A number of names were also written on many spoilt ballot papers in the count centre in Adamstown, including Maria Steen, who tried to become a presidential candidate but failed to get enough nominations by the deadline.

Other names seen written on spoilt ballot papers in Adamstown included Enoch Burke, Father Ted, Michael Collins, Bobby Sands, Dustin the Turkey, Donald Duck and Donald Trump.

Speaking at Dublin Castle, Irish premier Micheal Martin said: “It’s a worry”.

“I think, first of all, people are entitled to vote, people are entitled not to vote, and I suppose people are entitled in our system to spoil their votes,” he said. <more at link>

A choice even @PAF can appreciate.

 

[PAF]

A choice even @PAF can appreciate.

I would just stay home and not even bother with "spoilt" voting.


BritCard Digital ID is already being rolled out, Ireland is planning the same. It seems pretty coincidental that there are over 200,000 "spoilt votes" all of a sudden, it's another excuse and will get buy-in from the people to implement Digital ID. This agenda will be rolled out by whatever means they can get away with, the Global goal is by 2030.

The app will be able to store drivers’ licenses, birth certificates and other credentials and will be connected with the Life Events portal, an online platform for accessing public services.​

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[Voluntarist]

Stage 7 ... but I guess you need to spell it out for anyone to notice