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VoteTube Competition Announcement

VoteTube is a competition for the most entertaining, most persuasive and most effective political and civic message videos made about Ireland. There are two categories for entry. One is specifically for third and second level students and the other is for everyone else. You can enter as often as you like. Videos may be entered [...]

Journalists: Here Is An Actual E-Voting Story

Damien Blake, a FF County Councillor from Donegal appeared in today’s Sunday Times for stating the obvious: that the electronic voting system the government spent €52 million on buying and still spend €2000 euro a day storing should never be used. “I am unaware of any impartial, independent person who knows what they are talking [...]

STV-PR: They’re Counting On Your Vote

Well, what now? It’s all very well to issue a single sustained clarion blast. It’s a little tougher to actually gather your forces and have a clear idea of what to do with them. Nonetheless the last few days have seen the bare, tentative sketching of the kinds of things a push for change would [...]

A Vote for Change

There will be an election within the year. People who claim knowledge of these things say it will most likely take place around next Easter. Lots of bloggers have been commenting on the political parties’ maneuverings as they try to position themselves. I’ve never been that interested in that side of things- polls, photo ops, [...]

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