Voter photo ID

I've got a passport and a photo driving licence, so I do have ID, but I just cant work out what this intimidation thing is all about, I mean how much of it needs to go on to actually sway a vote?

I'm guessing this is in "certain" areas
Just goes to show what a **** hole this country has turned into.

Another year before I can get a bus pass

 

Down here once you move out of town buses are as rare as hen's teeth and not much better in town.
Why do I favour ID cards? Mainly because I already have to produce photo ID to collect parcels from some places, my GP has started demanding photo ID (data protection act 2018 apparently) to collect prescriptions. However they cheerfully send prescriptions to your nominated pharmacy who hand things over on a check of the first line of your address. Photo driving licenses could well be compulsory soon. We are already heavily monitored number plate recognition cameras on roads, in town centres and car parks. We can be tracked via our use of credit cards, mobile phones, Oyster cards, loyalty cards etc.
So why not have one card with a photo on it that can serve for photo ID, voter ID, driving license, access to benefits, health care, leisure centre, library; we will not be any more monitored than we already are. Not bothered about the police either down here, you're more likely to see a bus than a bobby or a PCSO walking around.

 

I really cant believe this country has become so full of criminals that you have to show ID to go to the doctors or pick up a prescription.
Only time I show ID is to pick up a parcel etc.

 

@NigelJ Isn't that a bit like saying "I'm already handcuffed, so why not also shackle my legs?"

Don't agree with everything Liberty say here, but they're fundamentally correct on the fact that: "The ID card scheme signalled a shift in the relationship between the individual and the state – where information is not just shared when necessary, but shared unless there is a reason not to."

The case against ID cards

How long before we're compelled to carry these ID cards all the time if they're introduced?

Nick

 

We've been required to produce photo I.d. along with our election card for many years. There was fraud. And let's face it, clerical errors happen and dead people have shown up on voting rosters so if tney don't resurrect themselves and bring along i.d., nobody can hijack their franchise.

And so many other scenarios. It's political arenas so the crooked stuff tags along and photo i.d. stops the abuse.

I just voted in our federal election advanced polls and am glad that I know all votes are valid.. we think

 

On the subject of voting. I have never voted. I had to laugh one day when candidates and supporters wer going door to door. I heard one say. That's alright, he's one of ours, meaning me.

 

Disappointed. I care about what goes on in my town, province and country and feel it is my duty to cast my ballot.

I refuse to talk policy on any level with someone who does not vote.

My personal foible.

You probably have saved yourself having to buy hip waders by keeping shut from the goings on but I'll take the risk of being exposed to the propaganda and actioning my deductions

 

@Nikolaos

Very different: if hand cuffed I can't garden. Carrying an ID card doesn't prevent gardening. Although various satellites probably have me on camera every time I work outside.
@shiney my GP's practice is probably an exception, they wouldn't accept my work ID card with photo recently and I work for the NHS. They wanted to see my passport or photo driving licence and to photocopy them. This despite already having my National Insurance number, address, NHS number and complete medical records from numerous institutions. As for postmen one leaves packages by the back door quite happily, the others take everything back to the office where ID depends on who you see at the desk. Parcel Force require signature of customer or it goes to the local post office.
Hence my desire for one multi use piece of plastic for everything. I don't care if the authorities want to track my every move, going back to school days I was always the one that got caught every time I stepped out of line. Even today I speed, jump lights or overstay in carparks then I get inevitably get caught.

 

If I want to do anything that requires me to state that I am me, I struggle as all my utilities are paperless I don’t have a passport but I do have a driving licence which doesn’t count in some instances.
I don’t regard an ID as intrusive just a means as to state this is me, but after a couple of days I could buy one on the dark web and be you.