Posted on 05/10/2021 6:08:39 PM PDT by RandFan
Britons will have to show photo ID to vote in future general elections, ministers are poised to confirm this week, as a means of tackling fraud which critics claim could deter poorer and ethnic minority voters from taking part in democracy.
The proposal is to be included in Tuesday’s Queen’s speech, which will set out the government’s post-pandemic priorities and the laws it intends to pass in the forthcoming parliamentary session.
A requirement that all voters carry photo ID could impede people who wish to turn up at polling stations without planning ahead, given about a quarter of voters – often younger voters – do not have either a passport or driving licence, critics say.
The government has previously said people would be able to apply for a voting ID card from their local council, although this would have to be done before polling day. Early trials in some areas led to hundreds of voters being turned away.
The voting reforms, which will also include a limit on the number of postal (mail-in) votes that can be handed in on behalf of others, are being justified by ministers as a way to reduce the risk of electoral fraud.
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That’s racist. /sarc
Jim Crow!!!
Abdul Crow!!!
How will blacks get IDs? I thought that was much too complex for turn to accomplish.
"Crow. James Crow."
>> as a means of tackling fraud
Of course necessary for the failed imperialists, but not necessary for the dodgy ones the beat the empire’s ass.
Poor and indigenous are great at obtaining IDs because they use them to get free stuff.
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Don’t get mad at us for electing a government that is actually going to tackle election fraud, be mad at yourselves for putting Biden in the Whitehouse and at Trump for failing to do so when he was in office.
So what?
The UK has the same voting machines and software issues we do.
Given that, elections can still be easily stolen.
In fact, likely just were.
Voter ID won’t fix the voting machine issue.
Until we go back to dumb voting machines, legal voters can still be disenfranchised.
General elections in the UK still use tried and tested paper ballots. Although there have been some pilot trials with e-voting, and machines were experimented with in a few of the recent mayoral elections, we’re still a very long way from their general introduction.
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