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Canvassing and apartment blocks

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Wed Oct 09 2024 - 00:02

Sir, – Claire Bradley rightly complains that as an apartment block resident, she has never been canvassed (Letters, October 8th).

As a political canvasser for the last 50 years, I can tell her the usual problem is we can’t get in.

Most blocks require a fob or entry code to access them, so unless we have a member or known sympathiser in the building, we can’t get in to canvass. – Is mise,

KENNETH HARPER,

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Burtonport,

Co Donegal.