Voting in NI

duggan1

lazer wrote: »

How long does it take to count the votes here - making a laughing stock of Northern Ireland

Blame the politicians, up to them to change the system. They were offered a demonstration of electronic voting systems and hardly any of them turned up.

warmhands.coldheart

Right !! Voting's over.... now can all those lovely activists that went out and put up all those big poster/placards etc please get your asses back out now and take them down.... they are unsightly........ and please take the big obscene cable ties off the lamp posts too rather than just leaving them there... ....

qwert_yuiop

lazer wrote: »

How long does it take to count the votes here - making a laughing stock of Northern Ireland

PR. We have it, England doesn't. That's why.

qwert_yuiop

lazer wrote: »

How long does it take to count the votes here - making a laughing stock of Northern Ireland

Well, this is the line the bel tel used, ignoring the fact we have pr and England hasn't. To give the matter one minute's thought would have steered dangerously close to actual journalism, and we can't have that in the bel tel.

donnac2558

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Right !! Voting's over.... now can all those lovely activists that went out and put up all those big poster/placards etc please get your asses back out now and take them down.... they are unsightly........ and please take the big obscene cable ties off the lamp posts too rather than just leaving them there... ....

The posters all came down in my area on Monday. I was shocked.:eek:

warmhands.coldheart

donnac2558 wrote: »

The posters all came down in my area on Monday. I was shocked.:eek:

Quite a few down in mine too but still some up and I was more shocked at the number of big black cable ties lying on the pavements..... obviously too much effort required to find a bin !! :mad:

lazer

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Well, this is the line the bel tel used, ignoring the fact we have pr and England hasn't. To give the matter one minute's thought would have steered dangerously close to actual journalism, and we can't have that in the bel tel.

Actually, Engalnd and all EU countries do have PR for European Elections - it is just a different type, these use party lists, whereas NI uses Single Transferable vote and so does Malta and Republic of Ireland.

Malta have 6 MEPs and seem to have had 29 counts, there count appears to only have ended this morning - however their election was on Saturday - ours was on Thursday.

Republic of Ireland - with 11 MEP's and a much bigger population count ended last night (however has now gone for a recount).

We need to start counting on a Sunday

Witless

lazer wrote: »

Malta have 6 MEPs and seem to have had 29 counts, there count appears to only have ended this morning - however their election was on Saturday - ours was on Thursday.

Republic of Ireland - with 11 MEP's and a much bigger population count ended last night (however has now gone for a recount).

We need to start counting on a Sunday

Don't know about Malta but AFAIK RoI started their count on Saturday.

qwert_yuiop

lazer wrote: »

Actually, Engalnd and all EU countries do have PR for European Elections - it is just a different type, these use party lists, whereas NI uses Single Transferable vote and so does Malta and Republic of Ireland.

Malta have 6 MEPs and seem to have had 29 counts, there count appears to only have ended this morning - however their election was on Saturday - ours was on Thursday.

Republic of Ireland - with 11 MEP's and a much bigger population count ended last night (however has now gone for a recount).

We need to start counting on a Sunday

Malta - 6 meps for 400,000 people. Strange.

duggan1

lazer wrote: »

We need to start counting on a Sunday

Are you trying to !!!! Jesus off? :mad: