Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Electoral Arrangements to Protect Democracy and Ballot Integrity: Discussion

3:00 pm

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I have just one final supplementary question. Is the offence to actually have executed the personation and to have cast a ballot in someone else's name or is the offence to attempt to do it?

If somebody attempts to do it but is confronted and then retreats-----