Archive for the ‘Electoral politics’ Category
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Fascinating stuff for anyone interested in following the Seanad elections at the moment. The people counting the vocational panels - those 43 seats elected by public representatives - are posting regular Excel sheets with updates of each round of counting. Not regular enough for some of the contributors at politics.ie ...
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
A New America Foundation press release points to the recent successes of movements for instant runoff voting across the US:In California, where San Francisco became the state's first Instant Runoff Voting city in 2004, voters in the cities of Oakland and Davis approved the idea, which would allow voters to ...
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
The Irish Labour Party has published what sounds like an interesting proposed constitutional referendum, relating to protection of cultural heritage:The Labour Party has published a Bill, introduced into the Dáil by Party President Michael D Higgins, which will protect cultural heritage and also place an ...
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Over at Gavin's Blog there's an interesting observation about the robots.txt file at www.irlgov.ie. Now, robots.txt files are not something I'm given to browsing on an ongoing basis, but there do seem to be some strange items on the ignore list - specifically, several documents that no longer appear on ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
The Irish Labour Party has launched a new bill - it actually got its first reading today - to totally revamp the manner in which the electoral register is compiled and maintained.Apart from creating an Election Registration Commissioner,the Bill provides for access by registration authorities to information held by third ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Earlier this year I provided a brief report of my complaint to the Irish Labour Party. It's been a long and eventful summer since then. On 16th September, after a round or two of correspondence, I reconfirmed my complaint and made another formal submission by email.
This morning, 4th October, I ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Just recently I'd been reading about, and telling others about, the use of the phrase and a pony, when making wish lists. And then I come across this piece, about a documentary on the inside story of Kerry's presidential campaign:It is marked with bizarre moments such as when Loftus rants ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2005
The world of politics is a cynical one, one where you take advantage where you can get it. There's something troubling though about news of a Fine Gael motion to be debated next week.
The Irish minister for justice recently announced two different plans that have run into opposition from ...
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Saturday, May 28th, 2005
I have to say I agree with Tommy Broughan. I haven't heard yet what's happening with the EU constitution issue.
Update: It seems the two motions dealing with the party's position on the constitution will be dealt with tomorrow morning (in the session that no one attends - at my last ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
There is so much of concern at the moment - the 'war on terror', rendition and torture of prisoners for one thing, the shameful response to the Uzbeki massacre for another (word was that the EU would issue harsh words today but not cancel its co-operation agreement with Uzbekistan) - ...
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