“Leo Varadkar ignored electoral law by canvassing for yes votes outside a polling station.

Varadkar asked people to “vote yes” in a video uploaded to Instagram just after he cast his vote this morning”

by lifeandtimes89

36 comments

  3. Does that mean we can cancel the referendums? Great!

  5. What’s the penalty? Can we throw him in the bog now?

  9. Extra bank holiday in November for all as punishment.

  11. “Hi, so just cast my vote in the referendums asking you to vote yes for family because all families are equal and yes for care because family care should be recognised in our constitution. Polls are open until 10 o clock. Decisions are made by those who turn who turn up. So please cast your vote”

    No fan of that man but at no point does he ask people to vote yes. Apart from that the rest of the headline is true.

    If he said “I voted in the referendum asking you to vote yes to repeal the Eighth Amendment” that is not asking you to vote yes, its telling you he voted.

  12. I’d love to know what his advisors do all day, they’re certainly not advising him anyway. 

  14. If Mary Lou did this it the Ditch wouldnt be make a deal of it and the same people complaining about it wouldn’t be.

    It’s a non issue, no matter who.

  15. This has real “teacher, look what he’s doing” vibes off it.

  17. If he advises me to do something, I’m 100% doing the opposite.

  18. Private citizens can’t show how they voted. Its against the “law”.

    The top politians are exempt from this as they are clearly above the law and his word means more.

  19. He’s probably sitting in a field somewhere now picking his nose trying to work out how to lie about this one.

    Seems to think the laws don’t apply to him, nor common decency.

  21. It’s fine, he’ll just give himself a 100k pay rise as punishment.

  22. Ooooooo, if it wasn’t the €20 donation, this will get him! 😂😂

  24. But he didn’t directly canvas people at the location, so he’s not in violation of the law? Recording a social media post is not physically canvassing.

  26. Classic.

    Vote no. They should clarified the language beforehand

  30. I thought canvassing meant trying to influence other voters at the polling station. I don’t think recording yourself asking for people to vote a particular way is against the law.

  32. He’s also outside the cartilage of the polling station.
    Sorry conspiracy theorists, nothing to see here, move along now.

  33. Of course he did, the man doesn’t care a whole lot for the law ironically.

  35. Electoral Act, 1992
    >147.—
    >(2) During the period commencing 30 minutes before the time appointed for the taking of a poll at an election, including a poll which has been adjourned under section 107 , and ending 30 minutes after the close of the said poll, **a person shall not, in or in the curtilage of a polling station or in any place within 100 metres of such station**, for the purpose of promoting the interest of a political party or furthering the candidature of a candidate or candidates or soliciting votes for a candidate or candidates or for any contrary purpose, do any or all of the following things:

    >(a) loiter or congregate with other persons;

    >(b) **attempt to induce, by any means whatsoever, an elector to vote for a candidate or candidates or vote in a particular way or refrain from voting;**

    >(3) For the purpose of this section, a polling station shall be deemed to include all parts of the building and any land within the curtilage of the building in which the polling station is situate and **the distance referred to in subsection (2) shall be measured from any entrance to the polling station or to the curtilage thereof.**

    >(4) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

    >157.—(1) Where a person is guilty of an offence under this Act, other than an offence mentioned in subsection (2), such person shall be liable—

    >(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment, or

    >(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding £2,500 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

  36. Is this canvassing? Is it illegal to post saying he voted yes. He’s not asking others to vote yes, he’s just asking people to vote.

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