I didn’t want to waste my time listening to any of the NatC talks the other week but I was honestly quite shocked to see Jacob Rees Mogg had really said the quiet part out loud in his talk –
*”Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections,”*
That is slightly different wording to what I saw reported in the press, certainly the last bit “*we* found” was skipped in most coverage I saw.
Depend on right wingers to try and gerrymander elections in their favour
13,000 that were counted, not including those who weren’t counted because they stayed at home, for example or were turned away at the door.
And how many were older most likely Conservative voters?
It’s going to be the 50-65 age range who probably would be most impacted since they don’t have access to the OAP IDs and maybe have gotten through life without photo ID.
I doubt this is overwhelmingly Labour voters impacted, just the opposite really.
13,000 people directly denied their rights, how many more did not even bother because of the increase obstacles?
How many fraudulent votes were cast in previous election?
If the number that were denied their rights (directly or indirectly) is greatly larger than the number of fraudulent votes then think we can reasonable say this is wrong.
Edit: spelling.
13,000 people lost a vote but more fraudulent votes were probably prevented so it’s a net positive.
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I didn’t want to waste my time listening to any of the NatC talks the other week but I was honestly quite shocked to see Jacob Rees Mogg had really said the quiet part out loud in his talk –
*”Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections,”*
That is slightly different wording to what I saw reported in the press, certainly the last bit “*we* found” was skipped in most coverage I saw.
Depend on right wingers to try and gerrymander elections in their favour
13,000 that were counted, not including those who weren’t counted because they stayed at home, for example or were turned away at the door.
And how many were older most likely Conservative voters?
It’s going to be the 50-65 age range who probably would be most impacted since they don’t have access to the OAP IDs and maybe have gotten through life without photo ID.
I doubt this is overwhelmingly Labour voters impacted, just the opposite really.
13,000 people directly denied their rights, how many more did not even bother because of the increase obstacles?
How many fraudulent votes were cast in previous election?
If the number that were denied their rights (directly or indirectly) is greatly larger than the number of fraudulent votes then think we can reasonable say this is wrong.
Edit: spelling.
13,000 people lost a vote but more fraudulent votes were probably prevented so it’s a net positive.