Voter ID comedy

Kenai said:
With turnout as low as it is these days, wandering into a building 'full' of people is probably unlikely :p
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Went to my polling station yesterday. 4 or 5 electoral staff and me. 5/6 people in the building.
BUDFORCE said:
I took my driving license, because I have an Irish passport it dawned on me I have no idea if I can use that to vote.
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www.gov.uk

How to vote

An overview of voting in the UK, including voting in person, postal and proxy voting, and voting if you're abroad.
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Seems an EU passport is fine.
 
Honestly......

Why are there no ID cards in the UK?

That soldier story just sounds like an emotional clutch at straws yarn.

There are some chronic backwards things still in the UK and USA..
 
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Hagar said:
Most countries in the world use voter ID for elections. I'm coming around to ID cards generally now.
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My French one lives in my wallet even though it’s not mandatory to carry them these days as I don’t yet have a French driving licence (long story) which is the de facto ID item here.

Both Citizen and Resident ID cards are free on issue, but you pay to replace lost ones etc.
 
I don't know. I honestly would prefer to have one central ID system for everything. Something similar to what we already do for power of attorney. Where if an organisation needs my identity, I give them one-off access code and they get whatever my most up to date set of details are, which stays up to date if I move, etc.

This whole government-can-track-us fear over such a system assumes that the various government intelligence agencies aren't able to pull this together already, and honestly it sounds trivially easy for them to do so.

So we're only shooting ourselves in the foot.
 
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