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While following the van carrying ballot boxes from a Boyle, Roscommon polling station to the counting centre at Roscommon town with an unmarked detective car behind it all the way, we witnessed an inexplicable stop-off at a petrol station for between 15 to 20 minutes. The driver of the van got out of the van, leaving the ballot boxes unattended, and entered the garda car. I only started filming the scene after he entered the garda car but you can hear from our chit-chat that we are talking about it etc. About 3 minutes and 50 seconds through the video you can see the driver getting out of the garda car and walking to the petrol station shop. After a minute or two he comes back and enters the van. After a further minute he then drives of with unmarked garda car following.

The van was left apparently unattended for between 8 and 9 minutes with 13 ballot boxes from a number of different Boyle polling stations. At no time did we see whether there was anybody else in the back of the van or not. We believe this could be a perfect opportunity for ballot boxes to be tampered with in the back of the van.

My earlier experiences while monitoring the polling in Boyle included security issues regarding the seals on the boxes. They were badly sealed with ribbons and wax seals and one of the boxes out of the 6 at my polling station was not sealed at all, just triple knotted. I addressed this issue and it was rectified, but I was still not happy with the seals. When I informed the garda on duty at the polling station he refused to look at the seals with me as a witness, but he took my name and ID details!

In fact there was no garda on duty when the polling station was opened at 7am. I managed to get in there and handle the boxes even though I did not have at that point in time the official authorization letter from the returning officer ( I did receive authorization later on). In my opinion anyone could have bluffed their way in there.

Please bear in mind that this petrol station is just round the corner from the counting house about 20 seconds. Therefore they did not stop off for a mere half-way rest!

I believe that just these many experiences of mine, from one small polling station in Ireland, are indicative of potential voter fraud built into the whole Lisbon referendum. I am receiving many stories from across Ireland that are very similar and there appears to be many patterns.

Please add comments or ask me anything you like. I would also like to hear more stories from people about possible vote fraud and lack of security.