#GE24 SAMPLE FOI REQUEST
To:
[email protected]RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2014
CONSTITUENCY: COUNTY (Insert County or alternative electoral area)
As an Irish citizen and constituent in the above electoral area, I hereby request under the above legislation, and within the time period specified under that Act, the following information:-
1. Please provide details of the precise number of applications to register to vote in General Elections made in the above Constituency for the past 5 years, providing an annual breakdown and stating how many applications were made by Irish citizens and how many by foreign nationals, indicating whether such foreign nationals are from within or outside the EU.
2. Please state the precise number of registered voters living and eligible to vote in the above Constituency for each of the last 5 years.
3. Please provide details of the precise number of applications to vote in General Elections made in the above Constituency within the last 5 years
which were refused, providing a breakdown of the reasons for such refusal and stating how many were Irish citizens and how many by foreign nationals, indicating whether such foreign nationals are from within or outside the EU.
4. Please state the precise minimum residency requirements necessary to ground eligibility to vote in General Elections in Ireland.
5. Please confirm whether or not hostels, or any other temporary accommodation used to house homeless Irish citizens and/or any Irish citizens currently in temporary or emergency accomodation, satisfy the residency requirements to affirm an Irish's citizen's eligibility to vote.
6. Please provide details of the precise number of applications to register to vote made in the above Constituency within the past 5 years, which were refused on grounds of failure to meet the residency requirement, stating also how many of these were Irish citizens and how many foreign nationals, indicating whether such foreign nationals are from within or outside the EU..
7. Please provide details of the precise number of registered voters in the above Constituency who were refused permission to vote in General Election 2024 on the basis of a change in residency or any other grounds related to residency within the past 5 years.
8. Please confirm whether or not any individual who is not an Irish Citizen was permitted to vote in the above Constituency in General Election 2024.
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