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Originally Posted by Mr K
Heresay from the conservative Spectator rag. I've no objections to voters having to show their polling cards, It's if this goes further and requires ID which the poorest might not have. Also the latest registration changes which resulted in 800,000 mostly young people disappearing off the register. If anything the 'fiddle' is the other way. (I've got more sympathy for the changes to constituency boundaries).
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Even the poorest have some sort of ID as their benefits are now paid into the bank and they will have at least a basic bank account with accompanying card.
As to the 800,000 you keep harping on about from the bottom of the article you linked to else where.
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Jenny Watson, the chair of the watchdog (Electoral Commission), said the official figures indicate “there has been a reduction in the number of entries since the last registers were published under the household system”.
However, she argued that “a lot more has been done since then to ensure as many people as possible know that they need to register to vote before the deadline, and how they go about doing so”.
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