GENERAL ELECTION: A political storm is brewing after a Donegal Primary school got their pupils to cast their votes in the forthcoming General Election.
The polls opened for voters based on Donegal’s Islands today, but many of the electorate have been left stunned as news broke that students in Kilmacrennan N.S. have voted on the General Election!
With strict guidelines prohibiting anybody under eighteen from voting, maybe the teachers at Kilmacrennan N.S. have found in a loophole in the legislation.
John Paul Gallagher told Donegal Daily, “We got all the pupils from 3rd to 6th class to cast a vote for their preferred candidates in an in-school election held earlier today.
“Staff members acted as Presiding Officers and poll clerks, while the pupils cast their secret votes in the privacy of a polling booth.
“The result of the Kilmacrennan N.S vote will be revealed on Monday morning.
Tellers have been appointed and we will then know whether we have voted in tune with the Donegal public or whether we are a motley crew of freethinkers!”
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