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Thu 07 Jul 200720,000 Seanad ballot papers not deliveredMore than 20,000 Seanad election voting papers for the Trinity College and NUI constituencies have been returned undelivered because graduates are not at home to sign for the registered-posted envelopes.Outgoing senator and Dublin University candidate David Norris said it was "shocking" that while some 8,000 graduates out of an electorate of 50,000 had voted, "almost the same number [ of ballots] have been returned, largely because the addressee was not available to sign for the registered envelope".