Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds

• soviettaters@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Voting requires you to be legally allowed to vote. This just makes it easier to verify who can and cannot vote.

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet all the evidence indicates 2 things.

    One it is not needed. As voter fraud is so low as to be insignificant.

    Two it actually limits peoples ability to vote.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where I live we get medical services cards with photos on them, free and no qualification needed, everyone eligible to vote should have or be able to get one

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We don’t. The new law requires local auth to issue photo ID. But dose not provide a standard way for people to confirm they are the person photographed.

    In genral its a mess. And leave the people least able to spare 9-5 time to run back and forth to council offices etc screwed.

    IE the poor who work long hours. Or disabled

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