Voter ID: Joy... where American conservatives go, British conservatives follow

[mikeymikec]

Corbyn: Voter ID plans discriminate against ethnic minorities

The government's plans will "disproportionately" affect ethnic minorities, the Labour leader says.

www.bbc.co.uk

"The proposals follow two trials which involved five areas in England during council elections last year and 10 areas in May this year.
During the first trial, about 340 people were turned away from voting and did not return with ID, compared to about 750 people in the second trial. That represented less than 1% of eligible voters in both trials."

And maybe 1% of those people don't have any valid ID at all, so wow, this looks like a really appropriate bit of legislation!

 

[HomerJS]

Racist righty bullshit being followed in England

Not hyperbole but proven in court.

 

[mikeymikec]

Racist righty bullshit being followed in England

Yup. Our PM has made his position pretty clear, as has the Conservative party when they cleared him of any wrong-doing in their opinion and even elected him to be PM.

 

[mdram]

in this day and age how can you not have ID? its required for so many things

 

[Luna1968]

VoterID should be mandatory.

 

[sandorski]

VoterID should be mandatory.

...for Governments to issue.

 

[Luna1968]

...for Governments to issue.

VoterID should be mandatory to vote.

 

[sactoking]

An intelligence test should be mandatory to vote. Most people who want voter id would fail.

 

[sandorski]

VoterID should be mandatory to vote.

Then the Government should issue one to all eligible Voters.

 

[mikeymikec]

in this day and age how can you not have ID? its required for so many things

Living in the UK:

There are very few occasions for which I must have ID on me. If I was stopped by the police for some reason and they demanded to see my ID, the legal obligation AFAIK is for me to visit a police station within x days to present my ID. If one has neither a driving licence or a passport, then one has no valid photo ID. Since we're not requiring people to learn to drive or leave the country, then logically yet another sufficiently valid form of ID would need to be produced by the government which will cost at least millions of pounds. An unbiased cost/benefit analysis would show that it's a pointless waste of time. Also, for voter ID to make any kind of sense, every voting facility / polling station would need to be equipped to be able to electronically read the data from such ID cards, and for that equipment to be protected to ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Again, more pointless waste of public money.

When I go to vote, I'm asked my name and address and they're crossed off the list by the people running the voting facility / polling station. If there was some widespread issue with voter fraud, it would have been exposed with tonnes of decent documentation decades ago. I've never heard of voter fraud in the UK.

Then the Government should issue one to all eligible Voters.

And free of charge. Otherwise you're charging people for the privilege of voting.

 

[HomerJS]

VoterID should be mandatory.

Sure because you want to disenfranchise minorities.

Now if you want to require an ID already owned by all like a utility bill. Or make it a requirement of the state to issue every qualified citizen at their cost then I'm ok with it.

 

[Jhhnn]

in this day and age how can you not have ID? its required for so many things

I haven't shown my ID in years.

 

[senseamp]

Fascism is spreading throughout the world, unfortunately.

 

[rommelrommel]

We have voter ID, but it’s pretty reasonable and if you can’t meet these I dunno if you should be voting.

We couldn't find that web page (Error 404) / Nous ne pouvons trouver cette page web (Erreur 404)

www.elections.ca

 

[BurnItDwn]

If we are going to do voter ID, least we can do is tattoo it on the body, just like the Germans did!

 

[Vic]

We already have voter ID requirements.

 

[dainthomas]

Whenever pressed for widespread instances of fraud that would necessitate this, conservatives go silent. Because these nitwits know it doesn't exist and they're just trying to disenfranchise the poor who wouldn't vote for them.

 

[Paratus]

VoterID should be mandatory.

Every voter does ID themselves. So what’s your point?

 

[mdram]

I haven't shown my ID in years.

go cash a check, fly on a plane, get a library card, rent a car, buy a gun/ammo, get a fishing license, buy some otc meds, and this is just in the last year or 2 for me

 

[thilanliyan]

VoterID should be mandatory.

Are you saying something like a Voter "license"? Or like a drivers license? Isn't proof of ID already required before voting? In Canada I can show my driver license and go vote.

 

[Jhhnn]

Whenever pressed for widespread instances of fraud that would necessitate this, conservatives go silent. Because these nitwits know it doesn't exist and they're just trying to disenfranchise the poor who wouldn't vote for them.

But they's skeered, you see, of the evil libruhls taking over by nefarious means. Not to mention that they'll abandon democracy before they'll abandon conservatism.

 

[Vic]

go cash a check, fly on a plane, get a library card, rent a car, buy a gun/ammo, get a fishing license, buy some otc meds, and this is just in the last year or 2 for me

And you showed your ID when you last registered to vote.

 

[Luna1968]

well well well. voter fraud due to no ID. NY shame on you.

 

[Luna1968]

And you showed your ID when you last registered to vote.

nope.

 

[mdram]

And you showed your ID when you last registered to vote.

well then why not show it at the polling place?