Vote on Saturday!
March 22nd, 2007 by FrankIt seems the Taoiseach wants to have the general election on a Thursday.
IrishElection.com are not in favour and have reasons why.
They’ve started a petition to have the vote on Saturday.
Green Ink drew my attention to it and suggested I do a button, so I did! Simple and to the point and should work well with the Drug Test Dáil Éireann button!
Feel free to grab the button and put it on your own site with a link to the petition.
Feel free to take this button, put it on your site and spread the word about the petition!
The code you’ll need to put on your sidebar or wherever should look like the code in red below – you can copy and paste this code and just change the bit that says ‘URL TO IMAGE ON YOUR OWN SITE GOES HERE’:
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/Thursno/petition.html">
<img src="URL TO IMAGE ON YOUR OWN SITE GOES HERE" alt="Vote
on Saturday – Not Thursday" />
</a>
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March 22nd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
[...] Update: We gotta button – thanks Frank!! [...]
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:50 pm
What’s wrong with voting on Thursday? On Saturday many people like to go away for the weekend. On Thursday the polling booths are open long enough to cater for everyone who wants to vote. Nice graphic design Frank, but I think this is a stupid campaign and it won’t be getting my vote.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Well the figures I read on turnouts made a lot of sense so I supported it… I know it seems like an odd one, but various articles I read convinced me it was worthwhile…
March 24th, 2007 at 12:04 am
On Thursday the students can’t get home to the place they are registered to vote.
Well, without missing classes anyway…
My point is that Bertie made a big deal about his timing elections so that the younger voters would be encouraged to vote. Now that the signs are that Bertie won’t get said votes he’s making it awkward again.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:20 am
The poor students! Bloody hell what a soft shower of shits they’ve become. In Iraq, when they had their first elections, people queued for hours, risking bombs and bullets to vote and you’re giving me drivel about pampered Bebo generation students who in the main have no interest in politics anyway. Why don’t they register in the constituency where they’re living for the four years they’re studying? That’s where the day to day issues of political life will impact on them most. Or is it an Irish thing where home is where Mammy is?
March 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
You said it yourself Martin, “who in the main have no interest in politics anyway.” We can go around saying they should or we can take steps to help them gain an interest. Holding the elections on a Friday or a Saturday would be one thing that could help them gain this interest.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
[...] The most regular criticism of the petition so far (here and elsewhere) and I just want to clarify a few points about why this is not quite justified criticism. [...]