[Magdalen] Voter ID

[Jay Weigel]

It's another form of poll tax, IMO.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think one of the major problems with requiring ID to vote is that it
> generally costs money to have a proper ID done, and requiring this
> effectively disenfranchises those who can't afford or for some other
> reason have no access to an ID. This has been used to keep members of
> minority groups in some areas from voting.
>
> All I have to do to receive a ballot paper or voting-machine keycard
> is to write my name and address on a ballot application sheet and sign
> it. A poll worker then checks the list of registered voters (now on an
> electronic device; formerly a thick book from which my entry would be
> torn out and marked with the number of the ballot issued to me) and if
> I'm listed and haven't yet been issued a ballot, I receive it then.
>
> I remember once being asked for an ID by apparently a fill-in poll
> worker not properly trained, and a nearby supervisor heard it and
> corrected him or her. I had already said I think showing an ID is not
> required. Seems like item 1 on a training agenda!
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:08 AM, ROGER STOKES
> <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > I know that in the USA the move by some states to require in-person
> voters to show ID before being allowed to cast their ballot has caused
> controversyor it is to prevent voter fraud, which is negligible for
> in-person voting. Any fraud that occurs is more general with absentee
> voting. Now it appears that the UK government is to trial it as well in
> certain areas.
> >
> > The full list of pilot areas has not been released but the ones I have
> seen listed are ones which are significantly multi-ethnic. Given that it is
> absentee voting where any significant problem lies I agree that this
> proposal is a sledge-hammer to crack a (probably non-existent) nut.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
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> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>