how a few Irish Voted and "Not Voted".

national | politics / elections | news report Sunday March 13, 2005 10:04 by iosaf = O' as if

the emergent democracy of Eire held two by elections on March 11th 2005.

On the 11th of March, those Irish citizens of counties Meath and North Kildare were called to vote in a secret ballot, as is their right for living in a tippy toppy emergent democracy, regardless of Ethnic origin, Religious Creed, Social Economic class, or Gender.
( but only if they actually live there, and pay or don't pay tax there, as the tippy toppy emergent democracy of Eire doesn't afford its citizens postal votes.)
Out they came in their handfuls.
Leaping over the primroses and daffodils, pushing aside the lobbying publicans to exercise the rights so sorely won and desperately needed in far off places.

the right to participate secretly in an emergent democracy regardless of ethnicity, gender,social class or creed.

North Kildare-

Historically a part of the Pale, Kildare is one of the counties of Ireland with the oldest direct tradition of parliamentary government or lack of independence depending on how you look at it.

It has been the favoured home to horse breeders and smack dealers since the declaration of independence.

With an electorate of 65,080 the constituency of North Kildare logged a poll of 25,313 votes.
This is 38.90% of the registered electorate.
There are no figures available for disenfranchised citizens of North Kildare who resident in the EU were denied a postal vote.

This means 39,000 people stayed indoors and either took the system for granted, or registered their abstentionist anger.

Many foreign observers, feel that the Republic of Eire has not reached the stage of democracy where organised abstention is considered either a censure on the government (of ruling parties and opposition) or to discredit the election process, as there has been no sign of "inclusive" all party dialogue and co-operation in the Irish state.

There were 8 candidates-
Catherine Murphy an Independent non party member radical leftist in the post Mao-ist hill climbing chunky knit stocking mode who got
5,985 votes with 23.64% of votes cast she is elected.

the losing candidates and the losing parties were-

Aine Brady Fianna Fail 6,201votes 24.50%share
Darren Scully Fine Gael 4,630votes 18.29%share
P.MacNamara Labour 4,507votes 17.81%share
Kate Walsh Progressive Democrats 2,006v 7.92%
J J Power Green 1,547 6.11% Gerry Browne Independent 226votes 0.89% Seanan O Coistin Independent 211votes 0.83%

The candidates for FF, FG; and Labour were eliminated (a techincal term for a euthanasing practise still popular in rural Eire).
The other candidates had their deposit withheld, Eire still operates a surety based democratic system which means only those of a certain social economic class may present themselves for election. The independence party SF did not present a candidate in the Pale this year.

Please note the political parties of Eire do not operate list systems for agreed candidates like most other EU states, and any only fecker or publican with any sort of surname can run, thus Irish political parties never present communality of purpose which is expressed in other emergent democracies where government is fronted by messrs- Juncker, Socrates, Zapatero or Blair.

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Meath

Meath is one of the larger counties of Ireland and is home to the Boyne river, Tara site, Boyne battle site, Drogheda massacre site, and lots of history which the current adminstration are hoping to move the residents on from by pouring concrete all over it.
with an electorate of 121,041registered resident voters of all ethnic origins, creeds and genders it has traditionally chosen candidates acceptable to established farming interests rather than the small mining community of Edenderry (a little village operating an autonomous collective non bin tax paying community, Edenderry counts roughly 800 people 447 of whom managed to climb over their barricades on Friday and spoil votes). The election in Meath was caused by the resignation of Fine Gael former Leader John Bruton, a strong farmer who erected the Edenderry barricades in 2002 during the now legendary "Navan road mazda 323 drunken driver debacle".

Total valid 49,706 41.07%
Spoilt votes 477 0.95%
Total poll 50,183 41.46%

So at a quick glance you will realise that 58.24% of the electorate of meath couldn't give a monkeys.

Shane McEntee Fine Gael 16,964v 34.13%
Shane Cassells Fianna Fail 16,117v 32.42% Dominic Hannigan Labour 5,567v 11.20% Joe Reilly Sinn Fein 6,087v 12.25% Sirena Campbell PD 2,679v 5.39% Fergal O'Byrne Green 1,590v 3.20%
Liam O Gogain Independent 702v 1.41%

Dominic Hannigan of Labour and Joe Reilly of Sinn Fein were eliminated humanely, whilst the deposits of Sirena, Fergal and Liam were retained by the authorities and will be invested in new barricades to stop democratic representation emerging in Edenderry.
Shane Cassells of FF was not eliminated nor did he lose his deposit, but he didn't win.

In 2002 an electronic ballot was held in the constituency of Meath and you may consult the details of that poll here-
http://election.polarbears.com/art0045.htm

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The website of the winning Left radical revolutionary socialist - liberation theologist - ecological - friendly - hill walking - barricade ending - feminist to the knickers - masonically guided - takes advice from the anarchosyndicalists of barcelona's thinkthanks- candidate can be perused at-

http://www.catherinemurphy.info/

With these elections it is hoped by the ruling class of the Republic of Eire that their status as an emergent democracy will be assured and that they won't be attracting critical UN resolutions.