ID cards for Voting

Bobby Dazzler said:
Don't eligible electors still get a letter telling them about their local polling station, the date of the election, their registered number, etc?
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Not only that, but it's a legal obligation to declare who in a household is eligible to vote...

The UK probably has one of the most honest voting systems around.
If of course you ignore the fact it also has one of the most archaic undemocratic electoral systems around!
 
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noseall said:
You mean a UK citizen can apply for an I'D card but is unable to apply for a UK drivers license or passport?
Trés odd.
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Non! An ID card if compulsory would be free. Your sons have passports which are not cheap and they would have needed an unrelated witness to vouch for them. Of course, they needed them to go skiing. If they didn’t need them to go skiing and couldn’t afford to go skiing or on holiday abroad and didn’t have anyone to fork out the £80 or whatever it costs and didn’t need one, would they have one then? Ditto the driving licence. Don’t assume everyone is lucky enough to be in the same financial situation as you and yours.
 
akist said:
As you can guess by my name, I come from another country, and there I remember you can be stopped by police to verify your identity, and if you cannot produce your national ID card, they have the right to take you to the police station for identification. Not that they ever did in my experience, it's not as if people walk the streets in fear of being dragged to the police station, but I'd much rather the fear of police stopping me than being mugged/murdered/knifed etc. I'd rather thousands of innocent people inconvenienced by a stop and search than one innocent person being knifed/kicked/raped. The truth is, it is not thousands of innocent people being stopped, but there are 100s of people killed.
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So if the police there didnt stop people to verify their identity, or didnt take them to the station, the existence of an ID card regime helped prevent muggings/murders/rapes/etc how?
 
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And there we are with an enabling mechanism for a police state and adminstrative hurdles which will tend to discourage people who you dont want to vote from voting.
 
Captain Nemesis said:
And there we are with an enabling mechanism for a police state and adminstrative hurdles which will tend to discourage people who you dont want to vote from voting.
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That's about the size of it!

Of course those who don't get that are mainly the ones who are the 'wanted voters'!
 
noseall said:
Free my arse.
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Why? You can’t have compulsory voting ID and have to directly pay for them.

How much do Northern Ireland residents have to pay for theirs if they don’t have any other form of photographic ID? I’ll tell you. Nothing.
 
Millions of people can't even be bothered to vote.
Maybe the government should give people incentives to go and vote.

A free raffle ticket as you are leaving the polling station, or maybe cups and balloons for the kids.
That could maybe give people the gumption to get some i.d for polling day.
 
Vinty said:
Millions of people can't even be bothered to vote.
Maybe the government should give people incentives to go and vote.

A free raffle ticket as you are leaving the polling station, or maybe cups and balloons for the kids.
That could maybe give people the gumption to get some i.d for polling day.
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I don't think many 18 year old kids will be much interested in cups and balloons.
 
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