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We’ve just had some more elections in the UK and the push for voter ID continues. It’s not all gone completely smoothly. I read in the Daily Mirror of the sad tale of woman in her eighties turned away from the polling booths because she misunderstood the instructions and "brought a photograph of herself, rather than a photo ID” to vote. An easy mistake to make.

But why is there a push for voter ID in the first place?

There is no problem with voter ID in the UK. It is a non issue. I live in a constituency where there is actual electoral fraud (people were jailed for it) and it was (as it always is) because of problems with postal ballots. The amount of what is known as “personation” (pretending to be someone else) at the polling station is utterly insignificant. 

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