Voters will have to show ID

Originally Posted by Mr K

For whatever reason young people are increasingly not registered to vote or not turning out to vote. You may say that's their look out/fault, partly it is. However whatever your political leaning young people not being engaged in politics or thinking voting matters or having a stake in the future is a big problem for the future of this country. Certainly more of an issue than virtually non-existent voter fraud.

and as it happens i agree with you 100% here .Voting and voting registration should be made as easy as possible ,it's very easy to turn young people off if a system is perceived to be too complicated or requires too many thumb pushes on the phone ,is there any reason why 18yr olds cannot be registered automatically when they turn 18 ?

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by martyh

So despite oodles of voter fraud and constituency boundaries biased towards Labour they still couldn't win a one horse race .....awsome

Yep. They really are that rubbish

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Originally Posted by Damien

How much fraud is actually there? I am not convinced this is a massive issue. I know it can be as we saw in Tower Hamlets but isolated incidents aren't evidence of it being a widespread problem.

Any fraud is too much, imo, and should be stamped out.

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Originally Posted by Damien

So what evidence is there of such systematic fraud?

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As I've already posted:

In 2014 the Electoral Commission published a report which singled out 16 local authority areas where it believed voter fraud to be especially prevalent. They were: Birmingham, Bradford, Calderdale, Derby, Kirklees, Pendle, Slough, Walsall, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Coventry, Hyndburn, Oldham, Peterborough, Tower Hamlets and Woking.

I dunno. Is 16 local authority areas 'systematic'?

[nashville]

Would not bother me to show I D,

[Taf]

The fraud is reported to be amongst one group of voters. Obvious which one when you see where this trial is being rolled-out.

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by Taf

The fraud is reported to be amongst one group of voters. Obvious which one when you see where this trial is being rolled-out.

I did best part of 25 years as a Presiding Officer and have seen some things that made me wonder and others that have made me worry. I can't believe that mine was the only polling station in Leeds where people tried it on.

I do a different job on election day now and look after about 25 polling stations but I still see people being 'browbeaten' outside polling stations in certain parts of the city.

Cheers

Grim