GREEN Party MEP Ciarán Cuffe has admitted using a mock ballot paper with the name of a fake polling company on it to survey voters in Dún Laoghaire in advance of his election to the Dáil in 2002. The latest revelations follow Independent.ie’s reports earlier this week that Sinn Féin trained activists to set up fake polling companies. Read More“In 2002 I had 20 volunteers use a facsimile ballot paper to do a pre-election poll using a made-up research company name,” Mr Cuffe wrote. At the bottom of the ballot paper was the name of a fake polling company which he said was “ABC Surveys or something similar”. Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin admitted to covertly surveying his constituents using a fake polling company before his first successfulelection to the Dáil in 2016.

Source: Irish Independent June 11, 2021 10:17 UTC