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2y ago

UK election watchdog issues damning verdict on voter ID impact

www.theguardian.com

UK election watchdog issues damning verdict on voter ID impact

Electoral Commission says policy could exclude hundreds of thousands of voters in a general election

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exactly what it was designed to do
Pretty damning, when it's the government's own electoral commission making these admissions.
We have had the exact same issue in the U.S. and there is the same problem and the people in favor of it always say, "it's easy to get an ID."
No it isn't if you don't have any other forms of identification. Like if you're homeless. But they don't count.
- The US is also a prime example why simply getting rid of an ID does not actually solve any of these issues for the mentioned groups. If anything you can see more problems with voter registration and information that partially would be solved by a unified ID issued to each legal citizen.
  Or in other words: People will always find a way to exclude groups on purpose and they will always be lazy to implement new measures to include a smaller pool of people, especially if they feel including those people might not even benefit them.
  And ID is a good first step but it's of course also not enough to reach everyone who legally can vote.