I’m tired of this being made into a controversial issue.
We need IDs for all different kinds of goods and services, and for all those, we just say that you need an ID, so go get one.
With voting, which you could argue is the most important service in our country, somehow it becomes racist and discriminatory to say you need to get yourself an ID to vote.
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F*** OFF with that sh*t. Just go get yourself an ID.
Jacob Rees Mog was audacious enough to basically admit that this was the point, though his intention was to screw over younger and minority voters who don’t tend to vote conservative. What ended up happening was that many older people were confused about the changes and either didn’t vote or brought the wrong ID and so on. He mentioned it at a major conference that we had inadvertently made it harder for our own voters to vote.
While I personally have a passport, many don’t and it costs money to get one, along with other forms of ID as I understand, thus creating a financial barrier to voting where one didn’t exist before. All to ‘solve’ the practically non existent problem of voter fraud in British elections.
Good. If you can’t be bothered to get some ID you don’t vote. This is an important duty, you’re not going into a sweet shop, you’re going to determine the future of a country.
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Genuinley don’t understand why this is seen as a problem. There are [loads of forms of ID](https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/voter-id/accepted-forms-photo-id) that can be used for this, even out of dates ones and if you don’t have one you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate.
I’m tired of this being made into a controversial issue.
We need IDs for all different kinds of goods and services, and for all those, we just say that you need an ID, so go get one.
With voting, which you could argue is the most important service in our country, somehow it becomes racist and discriminatory to say you need to get yourself an ID to vote.
​
F*** OFF with that sh*t. Just go get yourself an ID.
Jacob Rees Mog was audacious enough to basically admit that this was the point, though his intention was to screw over younger and minority voters who don’t tend to vote conservative. What ended up happening was that many older people were confused about the changes and either didn’t vote or brought the wrong ID and so on. He mentioned it at a major conference that we had inadvertently made it harder for our own voters to vote.
While I personally have a passport, many don’t and it costs money to get one, along with other forms of ID as I understand, thus creating a financial barrier to voting where one didn’t exist before. All to ‘solve’ the practically non existent problem of voter fraud in British elections.
Good. If you can’t be bothered to get some ID you don’t vote. This is an important duty, you’re not going into a sweet shop, you’re going to determine the future of a country.