Posted on 04/12/2023 11:16:46 AM PDT by thegagline
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.
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”. *** 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’. *** 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”.
‘securing’??? WTF!!
Those racist bastards!
And will some Leftist judge in Yorkershire (or whatever) now shoot it down...or does that only happen in the US?
Racist bastards are disenfranchising people of color everywhere.
Yes, the USA is one of the few countries left in the world that does not require a valid ID(primarily a photo ID) to vote in an election.
I explained this to a buddy of mine in Canada after the 2020 election. His response was:
“What do you mean you don’t have to show a photo ID to vote?
That would make it easy to cheat”
They saw what happened in The States when voter ID was thrown overboard.
I was talking to my GenX daughter about this. The way it is you can’t prove the election is legitimate but you have to prove fraud.
Imagine if this was true in the financial world. You’d have to PROVE the bank stole money from you without access to your account!
My wife says that is what they are trying to do with digital money but the point is the same regardless.
Does this line of argument make sense to any of you?
And in another oddity, voters in the U.K. nearly always know the election results the evening of the voting. They somehow actually manage to count the ballots within hours instead of days, weeks, or months.
The requirement of Photo IDs could have been imposed upon the states by tying it to federal highway and infrastructure funding.
they must be scared...
But in the US it’s racist to ask a person to prove who they are. But the biggest threat to our elections is mail in ballots.
In Canada we also don’t let anyone carry in a pile of votes and dump them into the voting box. And we don’t have drop boxes.
OH NOOOOEZ !!!!
How rasis, transphobe, migrantphobe phoby-phobe ...
Wait France is part of this ???
China will make sure that’s changed ...
Macron the transChinese will demand it ...
Must keep the masters happen ...
My wife and I laugh at what might say the road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees of buying any liquor/wine/beer in California versus voting.
She is 83, and I am 84. We both get carded whensay when we were born, to buy any alcoholic beverage.
Yet, we can get to vote just by saying our name like someone on the precinct list without showing an id.
WINNER!
If the US did this, we’d likely instantly “lose” some 40 million “voters”
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