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Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID
BBC ^ | May 2 | BBC

Posted on 05/02/2024 8:56:47 PM PDT by RandFan

Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station after forgetting to bring acceptable photo ID.

As first reported by Sky News, he returned later with the necessary ID and was able to vote.

He cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire, where voters are choosing a police and crime commissioner.

New rules requiring photo ID to vote were introduced by Mr Johnson's government in the Elections Act 2022.

The change was rolled out last year, with local elections in May 2023 the first time voters needed to show ID.

According to the Electoral Commission, about 14,000 people were unable to vote in last year's local elections in England as a result of the new rules.

There are 22 acceptable forms of ID, including passports, driving licences, older or Disabled Person's bus passes and Oyster 60+ cards.

People who are registered to vote can also apply for a free document known as a Voter Authority Certificate.

The government has also said it intends to make veterans' ID cards a valid form of voter identification after some former service personnel were turned away from polling stations.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: voterid
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1 posted on 05/02/2024 8:56:47 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Rule Britania!


2 posted on 05/02/2024 9:00:01 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: RandFan

Boris Johnson: The political Rodney Dangerfield of jolly old England. “I don’t get no (bloody) respect!”


3 posted on 05/02/2024 9:06:12 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: RandFan
Same as when Jim Wright a number of years ago tried to vote in Tarrant County (Texas y’all) with out ID…he was turned away.

*Do you know who I am?

Well sir, we can find some people to help you.

4 posted on 05/02/2024 9:18:24 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: RandFan

As it should be. “Libs” using this as some sort of gotcha on social media don’t realize that we on the right are perfectly OK with this. Go home, get your ID, then come back.


5 posted on 05/02/2024 9:18:40 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: RandFan

But isn’t it racist to require ID’s to vote? However can Britain, the bastion of multiculturalism, require that?


6 posted on 05/02/2024 10:51:25 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: Stravinsky

Does Britain have an election month like in the US or an election day?


7 posted on 05/02/2024 10:53:47 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: Tai_Chung

Neither. An election occurs every 4 years after the previous UNLESS there is a non-confidence vote, which causes an election within a couple of months.


8 posted on 05/02/2024 11:06:18 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: lightman

dittos !


9 posted on 05/03/2024 12:10:35 AM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: lightman

kinda, in this case


10 posted on 05/03/2024 12:13:30 AM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: RandFan
BJ- "I ain't got no ID." or "I ain't got no pencil."
11 posted on 05/03/2024 2:54:57 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: RandFan

Why that’s RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAACISSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

Oh, its in Britain? Nevermind.

The US is the only country on earth where its somehow racist to require photo ID because, reasons.


12 posted on 05/03/2024 3:35:05 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Yes it’s crazy as its considered not very controversial.

Also, they bend over backwards to help you if you need to get an ID so no one is disenfranchised.

US pols (Dims) are fear mongering.


13 posted on 05/03/2024 3:48:13 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: Deaf Smith

My line when doing check ins at GOP county caucuses and conventions is “We’re Republicans, we check IDs.”


14 posted on 05/03/2024 4:00:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Stravinsky

Precisely. I have three government issued picture IDs in my wallet.


15 posted on 05/03/2024 4:01:16 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Deaf Smith

*Do you know who I am?
Well sir, we can find some people to help you.”

</chuckle>


16 posted on 05/03/2024 4:50:24 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: RandFan

No ID No Vote ,the way it should be


17 posted on 05/03/2024 5:31:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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I’m wondering if he didn’t do this deliberately to make a point.


18 posted on 05/03/2024 5:34:29 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: RandFan

Meanwhile, the UK STILL doesn’t have a date for its general election, does it...


19 posted on 05/03/2024 5:36:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Cobra64

Or to sell a narrative.

The UK’s elections can’t be rigged cuz they have voter ID.

SNORT.


20 posted on 05/03/2024 5:37:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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