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May Local Elections In England

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    May Local Elections In England

    If you don't have valid ID and don't have a postal vote - then get ID otherwise you won't be able to vote.


    https://www.electoralcommission.org....d?gclsrc=aw.ds


    I only remembered because of the budget and https://www.theguardian.com/society/...aff-in-england
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

    #2
    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    If you don't have valid ID and don't have a postal vote - then get ID otherwise you won't be able to vote.
    Thanks - I hadn't realised this had gone through though I remember it being discussed. My area seems not to be listed which explains why I hadn't heard - I'm in exactly the deprived area where they claim it will harm left-wing voters. While the "poor people don't have photoId" argument might be valid, this is mostly countered by "those people don't vote anyway" so the whole rhetoric "this will help the Tories" seems unlikely to me.



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      #3
      I've got a passport, driving licence and old fart's bus pass. Does that mean I can vote 3 times?
      bloggoth

      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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        #4
        Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
        I've got a passport, driving licence and old fart's bus pass. Does that mean I can vote 3 times?
        Unfortunately NOT as it would improve the general 30% turn out figures.
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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          #5
          Having to show ID is gonna change the results in Bradford and other notorious areas I am sure.
          'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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            #6
            Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
            Having to show ID is gonna change the results in Bradford and other notorious areas I am sure.
            Nah.

            Postal votes.

            Also one person will go in the morning with a driving license and another in the afternoon with their passport.

            That's how they rigged it in Tower Hamlets....

            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7
              Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

              Nah.

              Postal votes.

              Also one person will go in the morning with a driving license and another in the afternoon with their passport.

              That's how they rigged it in Tower Hamlets....
              Doh, oh well.. carry on
              'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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                #8
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

                Nah.

                Postal votes.

                Also one person will go in the morning with a driving license and another in the afternoon with their passport.

                That's how they rigged it in Tower Hamlets....
                I don't know how they run polling in Tower Hamlets but where I am they always tick the name off their list when they give you your voting slip, so at least the situation you describe of two people voting in person under the same name twice should never happen

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                  #9
                  For those who don't know what I was talking about and are unable to Google this is the story -

                  https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ection-results

                  Lutfur Rahman, the disgraced politician found by an election tribunal to have engaged in corrupt and illegal practices, has secured a comeback by winning the vote to become mayor of Tower Hamlets in east London.

                  After the five-year ban placed on him for standing for public office lapsed, Rahman managed to unseat the incumbent mayor, Labour’s John Biggs, under the banner of his Aspire party.

                  Rahman was kicked out of office in 2015 after a specialist court concluded that he was guilty of vote-rigging, buying votes and religious intimidation. But the police and Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to launch a criminal prosecution.

                  and this from the Court case gives you an idea of what he got up to - https://www.theguardian.com/politics...y-of-electoral There are other news stories that alleged that votes from the same person were counted twice and people that didn't exist were registered to vote.
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                    #10
                    well

                    Summing up, Judge Richard Mawrey said Rahman had sought to play the “race and Islamophobia card” throughout the election and would no doubt do so after this judgment. “He was an evasive witness – Rahman was no doubt behind illegal and corrupt practices,” Mawrey said.

                    He also faces being stripped of his profession as a lawyer after the judge claimed he told “a pack of lies” in the witness box.

                    The ferocity of the judge’s verdict provoked gasps in court. Friends of Rahman claimed he had been unfairly treated.

                    he is a lawyer he would probably get a promotion.
                    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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