Voter suppression: UK Voter ID
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TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Three (!) recounts of an absolutely tiny ballot with an ex-Kipper-turned Tory candidate tag teaming with the wife as fellow councillor. One of the most deprived areas in Britain, yet they elect Tory/ukip councillors and a Tory MP who has a voting record inimical to their interests.
Nick_G
pfm Member
I wondered why there was still one council left to declare on the BBC stats. It looks fishier than the contents of Baldrick's plum duff...
AnilS
pfm Member
Very Trump
ff1d1l
pfm Member
Whiffy...open a widow, someone's trumped.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Local election observers say 1.2% of voters turned away for lacking ID
Democracy Volunteers group says half of them appeared to be from minority ethnic backgrounds
That equates to 384 000 at a general election on 2019 numbers. (I reckon at least as many didn't attempt to vote because they knew that they had no id.) To fix a problem that was in single figures.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...s-say-12-of-voters-turned-away-for-lacking-id
Democracy Volunteers group says half of them appeared to be from minority ethnic backgrounds
That equates to 384 000 at a general election on 2019 numbers. (I reckon at least as many didn't attempt to vote because they knew that they had no id.) To fix a problem that was in single figures.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...s-say-12-of-voters-turned-away-for-lacking-id
Enfield boy
pfm Member
Rather larger than the number that could've swayed the 2017 election so probably worth doing for the tories. Hopefully those turned away will feel stronger in their resolve to vote and get others out too. This could backfire in the GE and we could get "the real conservatives" tm K Starmer buoyed by the reaction.
Hazelberry
sister
I haven’t followed the entire thread. Does anyone else believe the current ID requirements are merely introductory & that they will only become tighter?
Has Labour promised to repeal this legislation?
Has Labour promised to repeal this legislation?
kensalriser
pfm Member
The Tory duo both failed in the end. Happy days!
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
I hear Labour is proposing to give the vote to settled EU migrants. Quite right too. I hope they follow through on this.
Nero
Re: Tired
Bit late for Brexit though
Dave H.
Revolutionary relativist
Bit late for Brexit though
Kind of the opposite of the fact that 2 million or so U.K. nationals who lived in the EU at the time couldn’t vote in the referendum.
Have to say that since Labour’s chief policy advisor nowadays seems to be the ghost of Norman Tebbit, I struggle to see the proposal getting very far.
Then again, it is cynical to the core (I don’t believe for a moment they give a shit about the principle, they just think saying it will work) and effectively gerrymandering, so it does suit from some angles.
ff1d1l
pfm Member
Well...yes and no.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
It clearly does if you don't fund a common id for all and in a timely manner. Councils were just left to cope with the fallout - half of those turned away appeared to be from minority ethnic backgrounds, as #289 says.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Apologies for the pedantry but "gerrymandering" has a specific meaning - the manipulation of electoral district boundaries for advantage - initial data shows that voter ID has a similar effect, but is not the same thing.