Dear Editor,
For the first time ever, voters in this year’s local elections for Cheshire East Council will have to bring photo ID to the polling station.
This isn’t a small adjustment – voter ID is the biggest change to our elections in a generation and creates new barriers between the public and the ballot box.
Many people don’t seem to know about the new rules.
The Electoral Reform Society reported on polling that found 60% of voters don’t know they won’t be able to vote in May’s elections if they don’t have one of the government’s ‘valid’ forms of photo ID (https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/government-plans-heading-for-failure-as-just-10000-people-apply-for-government-issued-voter-id).
If you don’t have any valid ID you must apply for a Voter Authority Certificate online or you will be turned away.
This idea has presumably been stolen from GOP states in the USA, who are doing it based on Trump’s lies about voter fraud ( and everything else)
It is general knowledge that voter fraud is insignificant both here and over the pond.
If you can’t win by fair means, make it more difficult for possible opposition voters to vote
This whole plan seems ill-thought-out and destined to be a disaster. We should cancel it before it is too late.
Yours sincerely,
Nigel Jones
Crewe
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