Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

2:15 pm

Dr. Liam Weeks:

This is the question to come later. This is the purpose of the commission - to carry out research into what is the best means. It depends on the various countries. A few weeks ago Michael Marsh mentioned the system in the US, which is a very liberal process. When a person gets a driving licence, he or she tends to be automatically registered to vote. It is a very different system in Australia because there is compulsory registration and voting, which is enforced. It really depends on what kind of system we want and how heavily we want to enforce it. These are questions to be asked later. Once we ask those questions, we then decide what type of system we want.

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