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  1. Published on: 27/12/2016 11:26 AMReported by: roving-eye
    The government will trial ID in polling stations to stop electoral fraud, with voters being asked for identification before they can vote.





    The government has today announced a number of measures to combat electoral fraud, including trialling the use of ID in polling stations.
    Responding to Sir Eric Pickles’ report ‘Securing the Ballot’ published in August this year, the government will introduce a number of his recommendations to tighten controls around the conduct of polls to eliminate electoral fraud. As well as piloting the use of ID in polling stations across England, the government will seek to:

    • prevent the intimidation and undue influence of voters at the hands of activists and supporters
    • end the dubious practice of postal vote harvesting, and
    • consider measures for nationality checking that will prevent fraudulent voter registrations

    The government will consider how to bring a number of these measures into practice including introducing new guidance for Electoral Registration Officers who conduct the polls.
    The aim is that pilots for ID in polling stations will be conducted at the local government elections in May 2018. Electors will be required to bring ID to prove who they are before they can vote, preventing anyone fraudulently taking another person’s ballot paper. Local authorities will be invited to apply to trial different types of identification, including forms of photo ID such as driving licenses and passports, or formal correspondence such as a utilities bill to prove their address backed by a signature check. Voters will be asked to produce ID before they can be given their ballot paper. If successful, the measure could be introduced for general elections and other polls. The independent Electoral Commission has long called for the use of ID in polling stations.
    Chris Skidmore, Minister for the Constitution said:
    The government’s view is that electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level. I want to protect the right of everyone to have their say and participate in our democracy.
    That is why the new measures we are announcing today will protect anyone who is at risk of being bullied, undermined or tricked out of their vote – and their democratic right.
    By eliminating fraud and tackling improper practices, we are ensuring the integrity of our electoral system while building a clear and secure democracy that works for everyone.
    Read the government’s response to Sir Eric Pickles’ report A democracy that works for everyone: a clear and secure democracy.

    Background

    ID cards at polling stations are currently required in Northern Ireland where electors must bring an electoral ID card. The government will be trialling the use of different forms of ID but has ruled out requiring a new type of photo ID card for elections.
    The key recommendations from Sir Eric Pickles’ report that the government will consider how to take forward are:

    • piloting the use of photographic and other forms of ID in polling stations
    • giving greater powers to electoral officials and the police to deal with intimidation and other unwanted behaviour
    • banning the handling of completed postal ballots by political campaigners and limiting it to family members and carers
    • that government should consider how nationality checking may be used to prevent false registrations
    • offences protecting the secrecy of the ballot to be extended to cover postal votes
    • requiring legal proof for requests for a waiver from giving a signature for a postal vote
    • requiring electors to re-apply for postal votes every 3 years
    • clarifying the detail of electoral offences to make them easier to understand and apply and increase maximum sentences for these offences
    • strengthening and improving guidance to those running polls to ensure process is correctly and consistently followed
    • revising the process for challenging the outcome of elections to make it clearer and easier to address proven instances of fraud
    • considering how the various agencies involved (such as police and local authorities) can work together to prevent and ensure a more consistent and robust response to allegations and instances of fraud

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  3. Orb says:27/12/2016 11:33 AM
    LOL... The government want to trial something to stop electoral fraud at the polling station?.. I think perhaps we need to trial something that will stop governments manipulation of the result AFTER the people have voted!

  4. Little Londoner says:27/12/2016 12:29 PM
    It is high time the Ballot was made secret when you go I you present your polling card they find your name cross you off then give you a numbered voting slip the number of which is entered by your name. It is funny that after voting you start receiving mail from the Party you voted for. In the Thatcher years I always said it was funny she didn't use it to have all non conservatives shot.

  5. cotton man says:27/12/2016 12:37 PM
    There has been fraud and manipulation in the mill towns of Lancashire in both local and general elections for years. Political correct governments have ignored it not wanting to upset Muslim communities. Time for change me thinks.

  6. toffee man says:27/12/2016 02:18 PM
    130 allegations of voter fraud in 2015 out of 51.4m voters 0.00025% hardly a massive problem

  7. silver fox says:27/12/2016 08:52 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Little Londoner View Post
    It is high time the Ballot was made secret when you go I you present your polling card they find your name cross you off then give you a numbered voting slip the number of which is entered by your name. It is funny that after voting you start receiving mail from the Party you voted for. In the Thatcher years I always said it was funny she didn't use it to have all non conservatives shot.
    For starters anything produced by "fat Eric" is automatically suspect, the useless lump is probably just trying to look useful and justify his pay.

    Do you have the faintest idea how a polling station functions? the voting process is as secret as is possible, of course every voting slip is cross referenced, the reasons are very simple, first verify that the person is on the Electoral register and entitled to vote, secondly every single voting slip has to be accounted for, third no-one gets to go round a second time because the name is already off the list and if needed it can be shown that a voting slip was issued against that electoral number.

    You may also notice that the list of names with electoral numbers is separate from the second list which just has electoral number and voting slip number, bear in mind all of this is entered manually, now for someone to find out how you voted, they would have to get their hands on the voting slips after the count, then get hold of of list 2 to link the slip to an electoral number, then go to list 1 to link the number to a name, bear in mind that at close of the poll, ballot boxes are sealed, the lists 1 and 2 are packaged and sealed separately, ballot boxes go to the count, the packaged lists remain sealed unless there is some query, the chances of someone checking on how anyone voted is extremely slim to impossible.

  8. glowsred says:28/12/2016 08:12 AM
    I watched Sky news report on this and they deliberately ignored the fact that it is being trialled in muslim areas, they keep on with the anti-white agenda and inventing stories about non-existent "far right" activity. Sky news is as bad as the BBC with its far left globalist agenda.

  9. local says:28/12/2016 10:18 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by toffee man View Post
    130 allegations of voter fraud in 2015 out of 51.4m voters 0.00025% hardly a massive problem
    So nobody will have a problem with this trial ?

  10. cotton man says:28/12/2016 10:30 AM
    As I understand it the majority of voter fraud in the past has been linked to postal votes.

  11. r4dent says:28/12/2016 11:35 AM
    My 45 year old disabled son lives with us and from what I've heard he will not be able to vote.

    No driving license ..he can't drive.
    No passport .. he can't afford foreign travel, and anyway he thinks it would be too much hassle.
    No utility bill ... they are all in my name.

    Of course, he does have a photo on his disabled travel pass, but whenever he has tried to use that as id he has been refused.






    .

  12. silver fox says:28/12/2016 07:17 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by cotton man View Post
    As I understand it the majority of voter fraud in the past has been linked to postal votes.
    Of course that's right, postal along with proxy votes are the only way any manipulation can be arranged, but of course some half wit thinks producing ID at a polling station will have some sort of effect, smoke and mirrors tactic to bring in mandatory ID cards.

  13. paulollie says:28/12/2016 08:08 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by silver fox View Post
    Of course that's right, postal along with proxy votes are the only way any manipulation can be arranged, but of course some half wit thinks producing ID at a polling station will have some sort of effect, smoke and mirrors tactic to bring in mandatory ID cards.

    Mandatory ID cards all over Europe well certainly in Italy as I've family there. Perhaps we don't need them just to satisfy the PC brigade, however if you have done nowt wrong then you have nothing to fear. Bringing them in wouldn't affect my Human" Rights" one bit, unless some "warrior" could enlighten me otherwise.

  14. silver fox says:28/12/2016 08:37 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by paulollie View Post
    Mandatory ID cards all over Europe well certainly in Italy as I've family there. Perhaps we don't need them just to satisfy the PC brigade, however if you have done nowt wrong then you have nothing to fear. Bringing them in wouldn't affect my Human" Rights" one bit, unless some "warrior" could enlighten me otherwise.
    Not overly worried about ID cards as such, however this will be at a cost to either taxpayer or individual, plus with the current government, I for one have little trust in how these cards will be used, how long before we have a "Big Brother" situation where cards will have to be carried at all times and produced for every tinpot jobsworth, precisely how Nazi Germany functioned.

    Certainly in the right hands not a problem, in the wrong hands a very powerful weapon of control.

  15. Nash says:29/12/2016 02:06 PM
    The government should pay for, and provide, photo ID for anyone that needs it to vote. Simple democracy.

  16. r4dent says:29/12/2016 02:26 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Nash View Post
    The government should pay for, and provide........
    The government pays for nowt ... Our taxes pay for it.

    But I agree that some form of photo id should be available to all, just remember even if it says it is free .. it isn't.


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