Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
It may be easy for an individual vote to be fraudulently cast, but organised wide-spread voter fraud would be extremely difficult and is almost certainly non-existent.

It's not a problem that needs fixing.

Some constituencies turn on a few votes, and require a recount. In these, an organised fraud could make all the difference as to who is returned as an MP.

That's a problem.
 
For me, it's about confidence in the system. At present, there are no checks at all. Anyone who knows someone isn't or can't vote due to absence, infirmity, lethargy etc can go to the voting station and give that other person's name and vote. You don't even have to show the card you're sent through the post. So fraud is exceptionally difficult to detect. The current fraud detection figures are worthless imo. The problem is likely to be much worse.

Voter ID is required in virtually every other country. What makes us right and all those countries wrong?

I confess it's not an issue I can get too exercised by, but I just still can't see the case for change. The burden of proof is on those trying to move away from the status quo, and I've not seen anything to prove this is an actual problem, or that it will do more good than harm to bring it in. I think it's probably just smart politics from the Govt as they know it will get Lab all fired up and Lab will paint this as a discriminatory policy, which makes Lab even more unrelatable to the Red Wall et al.
 
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I confess it's not an issue I can get too exercised by, but I just still can't see the case for change. The burden of proof is on those trying to move away from the status quo, and I've not seen anything to prove this is an actual problem, or that it will do more good than harm to bring it in. I think it's probably just smart politics from the Govt as they know it will get Lab all fired up and Lab will paint this as a discriminatory policy, which makes Lab even more unrelatable to the Red Wall et al.
I think this has been on the cards for some time. I always say if you have nothing to hide, then why not have ID? Agree some will say it will hinder some voters.
 
I think this has been on the cards for some time. I always say if you have nothing to hide, then why not have ID? Agree some will say it will hinder some voters.

Some will say it because it does. If it disproportionately affected groups likely to vote Tory it wouldn’t be up for discussion. It’s straight out of the Trump playbook.