The new rules on voter ID are a democratic scandal
Telegraph says I wonder if, in all the deliberations about the results of the local elections on Friday, we will hear about the number of people who had turned up to vote without the right ID and were refused. Will these numbers be recorded?
For this is the first time that the electorate has to use photo ID. Not just any photo ID, but only those specified. A passport, a driving licence, travel cards if you are over 60 but not for anyone younger.
It’s a year since the Elections Act was passed, which requires ID before ballot papers can be issued in polling stations for local, general election and referendums. When this bill was going through the House, the Lords tried to amend it with a large majority voting for more kinds of ID to be acceptable, such as student ID, library cards and bills.
The amendment did not make it through, so we are now stuck with this expensive new system, which many believe is a form of voter suppression.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/05/02/voted-id-election-rules-democratic-scandal/