Cork City's electoral register is more accurate than the national average
Around the country there are hundreds of thousands of duplicate or redundant entries on the register.
Cork County has more people on the register than their entire population
The Electoral Commission says it's dealing with multiple legacy issues and as a result, it can’t quantify how many mistakes there are.
Chief Executive of the Commission Art O’Leary, explains why there are so many inaccuracies
"It's only in recent years that the system has changed in order to be able to tackle these challenges. We speak about the electoral register as if it's a single database, it's not. it's thirty one separate registers, and right now, except for in Dublin, they don't talk to each other, we're trying to change that."
