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'A sledgehammer to crack a nut': Charities slam UK voter ID trials

Graham Cobb Silver badge

The only people that are worried about having to show ID are those that are up to no good and are looking to fraudulently affect the result of the vote.

No, the ones who are up to no good and looking to fraudulently affect the result of the vote are either supporting, or ignoring this. They use other, much more reliable, techniques such as postal voting fraud, pushing for internet voting and voting machines or just rewriting constituency boundaries.

The only people worried about having to show ID are those that have principles. They all have ID but recognise that that is no business of the returning officer as having ID is not part of the suffrage qualification.

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