Is that what's currently being proposed? I thought the gov was just (currently) saying that you'd need some form of photo ID to identify yourself at the polling station. That ID can be your driving licence (if it carries a photo), passport ...etc - or - a free voting card that you'll be able to obtain.
My passport has my details anyway - so I'll use that.
But even if they (the gov) wanted to just use a voting card, why is that any different to using any other form of photographic ID? Do you have photo ID on your driving licence - and what other visible data does that licence carry?
Personally, I'd rather it went a stage further. I don't see why I need to carry ID, when I ID myself - and I'd like to be able to securely use 'my ID' to identify myself to banks, gov organizations, police - anyone who needs me to prove me (I always thought taking a utility bill to whoever demanded it, that was so easy to dummy up, such a nonsense) I should then be able to vote from wherever I can prove my ID.
You seem to be happy to go and vote and look in a mirror and say '..yes this is me..' and the staff at the polling station to accept that - I think that's 'old' and not acceptable. I want things that only I should be able to do and access secured to me. Even manual photo ID to me isn't far enough.
Just be careful of the sharp edge of any new ID card, it will be a device for injecting the micro chip. Most of you will have no idea how often unconscious people turn up in A@E departments and therefore the enormous benefit of a card with essential health data about themselves.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I don't now have a passport but my last one was a Biometric type, you could guarantee in UK customs the Biometric queue moved slower than the regular type passports queue did.
I don't now have a passport but my last one was one of the Biometric ones and you could guarantee that the Biometric queue moved slower than the regular type passports queue did.
Because they were actually being checked rather than glanced at by a fallible human being?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't know why but in the end I stopped using the Biometric queue and fast tracked through with the other mortals, Biometrics was heralded as a faster way to process passport control it failed.
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Maybe the ID cards will be full of Bill Gates' microchips too.....
Tin helmets on.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Most of you will have no idea how often unconscious people turn up in A@E departments and therefore the enormous benefit of a card with essential health data about themselves.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.