Election Day

[poliphilo]

 Today's Local Council Elections are the first at which voters will be required to show up with photographic ID. Governments are always looking for ways to game the system and this requirement (I take it) is designed to disenfranchise people who don't have driving licences or passports- which is to say poorer people who are less likely to vote Conservative. Eastbourne is currently run by the Lib Dems, with the Conservatives in contention and Labour nowhere. I intend to vote Green.

Comments

[cmcmck]

This is a Labour local authority and I don't think that'll change any time soon.

The ID they're accepting also aims to disenfranchise the young.

[poliphilo]

Anything to cling on to power.

[heleninwales]

We haven't actually got any local elections here. I'm not sure there are any anywhere in Wales, but even if there were, we wouldn't need to show photo ID. We won't need it for Welsh Senedd elections either. We will, however, have to use it next year for the General election, thanks to the Westminster Tories.

[poliphilo]

They're carrying on as if voting was a privilege not a right.