Dear All,
Cork Claiming our Future will meet again this week, on February 17th and we hope you will be able to join us. Clodagh Harris of the Dept of Government in UCC will be present to discuss the complexities of the voting system and to share the findings from Reformcard - a scorecard ranking the political parties on their reform proposals.
Making Your Vote Work – Voting strategically in the PR System
Clodagh will take us through options for getting the most from our vote, guiding us in how best to vote to support the principles and values outlined in Claiming Our Future.
Ranking the Political Parties on their Reform Agenda: Last time Cork Claiming Our Future met it was generally acknowledged that a change of government was not necessarily equivalent to a change in how we are governed. Now that election campaigning has begun in earnest, each Political Party has proposed electoral and political reform. Clodagh Harris is working as part of an academic panel who will rate the manifestos of each political party on their reform proposals. She will introduce us to Reformcard, a scorecard indicating which party's manifestos will produce more democracy, accountability, effectiveness, legitimacy.
When: February 17th @ 7pm
Where: St Nicholas House, Simon Community, Cove Street Cork (Street behind Quay Co-op & Government buildings)
We hope to see you on the 17th and would really appreciate it if you could email to say if you are attending so's we can plan for numbers
Contact: Siobhán - cork@claimingourfuture.ie,
Claiming our Future is a progressive movement for an equal, sustainable and thriving Ireland, and is not aligned with any political party. To learn more we encourage you to check out the website and to join Claiming our Future. See www.claimingourfuture.ie
Looking forward to meeting you on the 17th February,
Siobhán O' Dowd
Local Convenor - Claiming our Future Cork
