For those who can’t be bothered to click my link before saying “*Well actually* they have this in the north of Ireland already...?” as I write in my piece, they also have free voter ID cards and there’s no plan to introduce them in Britain.
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In the last local elections, 819 people were denied their votepic.twitter.com/v6cngpUn2e
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And the Electoral Reform society describe it as using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut pointing out millions don’t have access to photo ID.pic.twitter.com/TzXoDSboly
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And here’s a 2016 article I wrote on voter ID because I’ve been banging on about this for yearshttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/voter-id-passport-drivers-license-disenfranchise-the-poor-a7497801.html …
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This is ready standard in NI. The electoral office come into schools to give students a free ID card and hold clinics every so often in council buildings for the general public to do the same. I have carrot-orange hair in mine and my tellers love to laugh at the photo
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There’s no plan to issue free ID cards in Britain unlike NI, which is the issue
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With no condescension in my tone, it’s wild how y’all are just a few years behind us in ways to fuck over your electorate
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Yep, it’s such blatant US-style voter suppression
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I agree. I don't own a passport or a driving licence (no car), what can I use? I have a citizen's card. It feels as if the Tories are trying to prevent people like me from voting.

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I’ve got epilepsy, so no driving licence, and don’t want to carry either of my passports round because I’ve twice had my bag nicked containing it, so getting IDed is a nightmare. But passports cost nearly £80, and three million people have no ID.
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