Voter ID led to racial and disability discrimination

Voter ID must be scrapped. Liberal Democrats are leading the fight against this deeply unfair scheme.

The Liberal Democrats in both the House of Commons and the Lords consistently led opposition to the introduction of the Voter ID law.

Today Liberal Democrat members backed my Elections (Voter Identification Requirements) Bill, which would scrap the Voter ID scheme and stop this attack on our democracy.

www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/scrap-the-voter-id-scheme

The Liberal Democrat’s are against voter ID, but they think a woman can have a penis. I can see how those two things go together.

Liberal Democrats

Mollygo

The Liberal Democrat’s are against voter ID, but they think a woman can have a penis. I can see how those two things go together.

That sums them up 👍

varian

Voter ID must be scrapped. Liberal Democrats are leading the fight against this deeply unfair scheme.

The Liberal Democrats in both the House of Commons and the Lords consistently led opposition to the introduction of the Voter ID law.

Today Liberal Democrat members backed my Elections (Voter Identification Requirements) Bill, which would scrap the Voter ID scheme and stop this attack on our democracy.

www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/scrap-the-voter-id-scheme

In what way was it"unfair"? It discriminated against nobody because everyone had to have it.

The LDs are the joke we enjoy - they are always protesting against something.🙄

DiamondLily
The LDs are the joke we enjoy - they are always protesting against something

Mollygo

NotSpaghetti

^Molly I believe it depends on interpretation.
Some Muslim women think it is a requirement.^

*But who turns a requirement into a compulsion not to show your face for security purposes?*

I suppose Mollygo that is a cultural thing in my eyes but so many (men and women) think it's a religious requirement for women to dress thus.

I know the suggestion was that a woman be always available at a voting centre to take a "covered" female voter into a private side-room for identification. The info I read said there must also be a mirror provided for the voter to make sure she was appropriately covered again before venturing back out.

I don't know how well this was implemented.

The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.

www.libdems.org.uk/values

The Liberal Democrats have a positive message and are not funded by billionaires or big trade unions, but by individual members.

The readers of The Daily Express, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Daily Mail may be instructed to regard the LibDems as a joke.

What is really sad is the UK politics has in the last eight years become a joke - but not a funny one.

We have endured eight years of chaos, gross incompetence and corruption. We deserve better.

DiamondLily

varian

Voter ID must be scrapped. Liberal Democrats are leading the fight against this deeply unfair scheme.

The Liberal Democrats in both the House of Commons and the Lords consistently led opposition to the introduction of the Voter ID law.

Today Liberal Democrat members backed my Elections (Voter Identification Requirements) Bill, which would scrap the Voter ID scheme and stop this attack on our democracy.

www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/scrap-the-voter-id-scheme

In what way was it"unfair"? It discriminated against nobody because everyone had to have it.

The LDs are the joke we enjoy - they are always protesting against something.🙄

I hate to start this up again, but it was the deprivation of all eligible citizens' unconditional right to vote.

It was not necessary, there was no compelling evidence of voter evidence of voter fraud to justify it.

And despite what all the virtuous and authoritarian posters on here say about it being well publicised and easy to obtain, blah, blah, blah, two reports (including the Electoral Commission's) on the local elections said that it disenfranchised a significant number of voters and was likely to do so again.

We have only had a universal adult franchise for less than 100 years. It was hard fought for; sadly it's no longer valued.

This was an excellent example of people doing what the government told them to do without any question...

I hope that the Lib Dems will get near enough to power in the next general election to be able to repeal this measure.

maddyone

DiamondLily
The LDs are the joke we enjoy - they are always protesting against something

How nasty....

I hate to start this up again, but it was the deprivation of all eligible citizens' unconditional right to vote.
The same way as having to have a passport deprives all eligible citizens of the unconditional right to go abroad or enter the UK.

Mollygo

I hate to start this up again, but it was the deprivation of all eligible citizens' unconditional right to vote.
The same way as having to have a passport deprives all eligible citizens of the unconditional right to go abroad or enter the UK.

It is not the same thing at all. There are no analogous situations extant in the UK at the moment.

If any thing, it's more like having one's freedom of movement removed by the deeply stupid Brexit vote, in that it is the removal of a right...

MD it all depends on how much you want something.
You want free travel on a bus? You can only get it if you apply for a bus pass.
You want to go abroad? You can only go if you apply for a passport.
You want to vote? You can only do it if you have voter ID.
You want to drive/be a passenger in a car? You can only do that if you wear a seatbelt.
You want free school meals for your children? It won’t happen if you don’t apply.

You want to choose which rules you obey and decry the ones you don’t?
You have to have. GN account.

None of those are in any way analogous to the voter ID situation.

None of them impinges on an unconditional right.

IYO. MD

Voter ID was totally unnecessary. Voter fraud was miniscule. Most fraud was committed by Parties and would-be MPs. It was designed by the Tories to disadvantage Labour etc., voters. It should be scrapped.