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So if you don't graduate university you have reduced voting rights?!

• fullspectrumdev 3y ago
  For the upper house, yes. As a graduate of an institute of technology, having transferred from a university, I don’t get to vote in the Seanad (senate) elections at all. To clarify: most upper house seats are elected by members of parliament. There’s a pool of seats reserved for graduates of a subset of universities to vote on. It’s terribly undemocratic and needs to be reformed or abolished.
• jowea 3y ago
  It was/is a thing in some countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_constituency#Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_constituency#Irelan... But the Irish Senate has a relatively unusual composition and voting system anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann#Composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann#Compositio...
• jan_Inkepa 3y ago
  For one particular pool of candidates fighting over university allocated senate seats - you still have regular voting rights.