A woman arrives with children at a polling station on the day of a referendum on changes to the Irish constitution called the Family Amendment and the Care Amendment, in Dublin, March 8. Photo: OSV News/Reuters, Clodagh Kilcoyne “Over 200,000 people left the comfort of their own home and spoiled their votes purposefully in order to register a protest against how the presidential election was run” Aontu’s Peadar Tóibín has told this paper In total, he said, “317,000 people either spoiled their votes or voted for a withdrawn candidate. Spoiled votes even “beat…
