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The entire United Kingdom will have mandatory photographic identification requirements for voting in the nation’s May elections this year.

The Elections Act (2022) requires that voters in Great Britain show photo ID before being issued their ballot paper in polling stations across the country. This follows in the footsteps of most other countries, such as France, Germany, Canada, Italy, and Israel, all of which have successfully eliminated mass voter fraud.

Election Integrity.
Britain’s Electoral Commission highlighted the nation’s prior lack of identification requirements as an “actual and… perceived weakness” of the voting system in the UK. The introduction of photo ID forms part of the governing Conservative Party’s stated aim of “protect the integrity of our democracy”.

In a public policy paper called “Protecting the Integrity of Our Elections: Voter Identification at Polling Stations and the New Voter Card,” government minister Kemi Badenoch argued: “[s]howing photographic identification is a reasonable and proportionate way to confirm that someone is who they say they are when voting, thus stamping out the potential for voter fraud to take place and giving electors the confidence that their vote is theirs and theirs alone.”

Leftist Criticism.
The far-left Labour Party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner called the move a “blatant attempt to rig democracy in favour of the Conservative Party.” Her complaint was along the same lines used by anti-ID campaigners in the United States: that the measure disproportionately affects minorities and younger voters. For Rayner, it amounts to “an assault on our hard-won rights.”

POLITICO reported that opponents “claim the laws ‘suppress’ marginalized groups who are less likely to possess required documents”. However, this neglects to mention that anyone of voting age in the UK may apply to their local council for a free ‘Voter Authority Certificate’.

If not, there are a further 22 acceptable forms of authenticating one’s identity, according to the Electoral Commission. Despite corporate media implications, and similarly to the United States, there is no discrimination in English law that prohibits ethnic minorities from applying to their local council for a valid ID.

Voter ID pilots began in the UK in 2018.

Politicization of Voter ID.
These voting alterations come at a time when voter ID is a highly politicized topic, leaving America as one of the only remaining countries that refuses to compromise.

Only recently did Ohio, for example, introduce some of the “strictest voter ID rules in the country,” according to the Guardian. The new laws require certain forms of ID that around 98 percent of Ohioans possess. If not, anyone in the state may still apply for an authorised ID card – a similar scheme to UK.

The University of Notre Dame released a study this year that found that showing ID “motivated supporters of both parties equally” and has “little overall effect on the actual outcomes of… elections”.


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This is clearly a method to rig elections in favor of conservatives as never again will the dead and non-existent be able to vote, nor will people be able to vote more than once. It's a travesty I say.




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Bring this to Illinois. Please!
 
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It would be funny if the data showed that countries decide this after being visited by Brandon or the Camel. “Fuck this, election fraud really screwed America. Don’t want that to happen here.”




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Probably already too late.




 
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Sadly we will never have anything like that here. It is too corrupt and no one wanting to do anything about it.
 
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Jimmy Carter, when he was "monitoring" elections in other countries, always reported that absentee ballots/mail in ballots were the culprits in voter fraud. Until 2020, when he stated that it was the best method for the U.S. Presidential Election.



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Racists! Big Grin
 
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