It is not just about voter identification. Many of us doctors have called for years for an ID card, for all the reasons I have already mentioned. Added benefits are it could act as a driving license, passport etc.
All in one handy credit card sized item, biometrically accessed.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
If I go to the Dr, Hospital, dentist or even the physio I have to present my health card. It has my name, address, and the name and address of my Dr on it (no photo) If I drive I have to have my driving license with me, I'm about to be issued with a residency card due to Brexit, Yes it's a pain in the neck to have to have a wallet all the time and yes I forget many times to carry it (I really should just leave the driving license in the car) The health card is used other places as well, including to vote, it can be used as ID even though it has no photo, old rules I suppose. But much the same as when I got a mortgage in the UK and since I didn't have photo ID I had to use a birth certificate, utility bills, bank statements... nothing with a photo but a lot more effort than one card with one!
such fun!!! Trying to prove your ID without a passport or driving license, so you can get a card with your ID on. trying to prove your address without a paper bill, I don’t have any paper bills.
I have obviously not been clear. If I CHOOSE to get an ID card and I CHOOSE to carry it for all the reasons others have mentioned that’s one thing. If I am FORCED to have an ID card or forfeit my democratic right to vote, something people have died to give me that is entirely different.
This government is taking so much from so many and I won’t give up my rights easily.
Alternative view. You're not giving up your rights just proving you've got them through showing an approved method of identification.
At the moment that identification consists of asking for your name. Irrespective of the number and type of election fraud can you see that the current situation is a bit daft. Especially when so many people have fought not just to get the vote but to be free to vote as their conscience sees fit. Even after some got the vote it wasn't fair. Rotten boroughs, pressure of one kind or another to vote a certain way. Whether that's thugs for the incumbent, unions, wealthy or class. Election fraud was a problem once and who knows it could become a problem again.
Why should I have to prove I have the right to vote? Why is the current situation daft? It has worked for many years. I am very wary of this government and would resist any such changes they introduce.
Bencotto, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Students can register to vote at their hall of residence AND their home,but only vote in one or the other. Defacing postage stamps is illegal
...have a read as to why they think they're required. They say that currently you just have to go to a polling station and say '...I am Ms Blah from such-and-such address...' and if that person exists on their list and isn't marked as already voted, you can vote. That shouldn't be allowable should it?
But, as a side product, a voting card will also then prove you have the right to vote as I would hope that the gov will not allow voting cards to be issued to people who aren't eligible.
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Many of us doctors have called for years for an ID card, for all the reasons I have already mentioned.
Added benefits are it could act as a driving license, passport etc.
All in one handy credit card sized item, biometrically accessed.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
At the moment that identification consists of asking for your name. Irrespective of the number and type of election fraud can you see that the current situation is a bit daft. Especially when so many people have fought not just to get the vote but to be free to vote as their conscience sees fit. Even after some got the vote it wasn't fair. Rotten boroughs, pressure of one kind or another to vote a certain way. Whether that's thugs for the incumbent, unions, wealthy or class. Election fraud was a problem once and who knows it could become a problem again.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.