As for previous elections, the Institute of Public Administration, in conjunction with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is offering training for Local Authority staff involved in the Local and European Elections. Workshops will be delivered in a number of locations across Ireland in February, March and April 2024.
The Local and European Election Workshops and Re-count Workshops are designed for Returning Officers, Deputy Returning Officers, Count Supervisors and other relevant staff.
Local and European Election Workshops
Each workshop will cover all aspects of organising the elections and concentrate, in particular, on the following areas:
- Nominations, postal and special votes.
- Detailed procedures for the counting of votes including the use of the new, updated e-count programme during the count.
- Details and demonstration of how to conduct a re-count.
Re-Count Workshops
Each Re-count Workshop will demonstrate how to conduct a successful re-count. A mock re-count will be conducted in order to demonstrate the procedures and principles involved.
Materials used during each of the above workshops will include results of previous elections which demonstrate the principles applied both during a count and re-count.
All workshops are facilitated by John Condon, Padraig Hughes and Stephen Carolan, each of whom have many years’ experience of election counts and re-counts in Mayo and elsewhere.