National Voter.ie platform will provide fully integrated nationwide electoral register
Voting in Ireland has made a historic step as all local authorities have begun using Voter.ie to manage the electoral register.
This is the first time in the history of the State that all local authorities are managing and maintaining the electoral register in a shared integrated system.
To promote the platform, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage James Browne TD, announced a new awareness campaign to inform the public that checkregister.ie is now Voter.ie.
The Minister is encouraging everyone to use the site to check that their details are current and correct on Voter.ie the new electoral registration system. The new awareness campaign marks the culmination of work over several years to transform and modernise the electoral registration process.
The system was developed by Dublin City Council as the lead authority and Designated Registration Authority under the Electoral Reform Act, and was fully funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage at a cost of €7.6m over 2024-2026.
As part of the announcement Minister Browne commented, “Today we are introducing the public to the new Voter.ie platform. This new Voter.ie system delivers what we have known we’ve needed for many years, an integrated and secure electoral registration system at national level that nevertheless ensures that each Local Authority continues to bring its expertise to this critical work.”
The multi-media awareness campaign to alert the public to the switch to voter.ie will begin next week and run for four weeks.
Benefits of the new system will include:
A smooth and streamlined application process for electors who can now use MyGovID or a PPSN based form to register and update their details; paper forms remain available for any who wish or need to use them.
A fully streamlined system for administration by Local Authorities, including the ability to manage electors moving between authorities seamlessly, avoiding and managing duplicates and removing deceased electors effectively.
A modern and secure IT infrastructure.
Paying tribute to the local government sector, Minister Browne added, “I want to thank Dublin City Council and the project team, as well as all Local Authorities for their professional and constructive engagement throughout this project, from the initial policy work, through legislation, implementation procurement and delivery.
“My department funded this project and supported Local authorities over recent years with additional resources to deliver not only the improved processes and systems but also undertake a substantial review of data prior to migration because we wanted to achieve a huge improvement in the overall integrity of the electoral register. That has now happened.”
The department provided almost €4m over 2025 and 2026 for two additional resources in each local authority for 18 months to undertake specific data focused tasks including standardisation, translation of place names and polling stations as well as identification and management of duplicate and deceased electors.
This was additional to €6m provided over the years 2023-2026 for data quality work which focused on local awareness raising and associated data quality improvements on the register.
Concluding his statement, Minister Browne said, “This project has delivered the most radical change in electoral registration in the history of the State.
“To build on that success and ensure we reap the benefits into the future, Budget 2027 provides for continued support to local authorities in the next phase of this work.
“My Department will now work with the sector to apply these resources to ensure that the new system has the high-quality data needed to fully deliver on its potential and to develop long-term strategic capacity to protect and further enhance this process for the future.”