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Originally Posted by denphone
So squaring the circle l would hazard a guess that several million voters don't have any of those two so unless there are other ways of confirming their identification that rules them out of casting their democratic vote.
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Between three and four million iirc
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Originally Posted by Paul
The only thing I can see this achiving is a much lower turnout.
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Indeed, I've been looking for an excuse not to bother and solidarity with those unable to vote is as good as any...
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Originally Posted by Damien
What is going to happen is a load of people are going to go to the polls unaware of this new policy and be turned away. There will be public information campaigns but they won't reach everyone.
The attempts to process the applications for council provided photo-id cards will be expensive and error-prone with many people falling inbetween administrative gaps because the council will be missing various details on many of the applications because the bureaucracy is a mess and we don't have a central database of citizens. Besides given the messes over the EU Settlement Scheme and Windrush how many people do you think trust the Government on these matters? Want to go look at how many European Citizens entitled to vote were turned away at the last European election?
So come the first election with this new system we'll see scandals over the applications at first and then scandals over it's implementation on voting day. This is going to be an expensive and bureaucratic nightmare in the making to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
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20 million quid extra again iirc per national election
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Sorry, I was interrupted and didn’t fully explain myself. I also read that compulsory voting was being promoted, and this is what will, I believe, increase the Labour vote.
The ID thing is easily overcome.
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Compulsory voting, doesn't sound very democratic to me...