An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2024-06-12
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Lisa Chambers (FF), Cultural and Educational Panel

There are other ways, and the bar code was in another country that she visited for election monitoring, of dealing with it. Even for the European count in Midlands-North-West, there was something like 20,000 spoiled ballots. Many of those were not filled in, and that is a different body of work but certainly, not stamping a ballot paper is something we can address. There has to be a solution to that because ultimately, that person has not got their vote counted.
It can really make a difference in a local count as we have seen where Senator O'Loughlin is. There was a count in Swinford that went to a second recount and was decided by one vote. An unstamped ballot could make the difference. It is an important point to make. That concludes the Order of Business.

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