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Voter ID pilot Schemes

an air hostess at Gatwick. She had been a ballet dancer until her breasts got too big

That's not a girlfriend. That's a pitch for a porn film.

National ID cards are a very useful tool if they are implemented correctly. There are some very interesting articles on line about the Estonian card. Plug it in to a PC and you can use it for on line voting. It can also be used as a passport and to pay for public transport. Everybody who gets a card also gets an official email address. Saved a fortune in sending letters from the government.

I think there's little chance of ID cards being introduced in Britain. Think of the arguments about how many genders there are. Plus, the last Labour government tried to use ID cards to track our every movement, including trips to the toilet, how many sheets of bog roll used and was it a long or a short flush.
 
That's not a girlfriend. That's a pitch for a porn film.

National ID cards are a very useful tool if they are implemented correctly. There are some very interesting articles on line about the Estonian card. Plug it in to a PC and you can use it for on line voting. It can also be used as a passport and to pay for public transport. Everybody who gets a card also gets an official email address. Saved a fortune in sending letters from the government.

I think there's little chance of ID cards being introduced in Britain. Think of the arguments about how many genders there are. Plus, the last Labour government tried to use ID cards to track our every movement, including trips to the toilet, how many sheets of bog roll used and was it a long or a short flush.

Contrasts. The Estonian model shows how it could work, and Work very well. The Labour model was an exercise in population control. It’s interesting how far they were prepared to go when it suited them, and how anti they are now it doesn’t.
 
If we do go ahead, and outsource this, I suggest we award the contract to Alphabet (Google). If they don't have a record of you already, they'll probably pay us for the chance to add you to their database.
 
Yes, that cancels the referendum result. Actually you did commit an electoral offence by impersonating a voter, but I wonder why you bothered, because production of polling card (while a requirement in some of the imminent ID trials) was not required in order to vote.
Odd ours did? Maybe just to stop revolving door voting? Definitely produced though, because I got turned away am as I couldn’t find mine....

Maybe it was a registration card rather than a polling card comes to think of it....
 
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I have no objection to id cards in principle.
My main concern is the lanyard.
Seems to me, nowadays, everyone and his brother has a colourful lanyard with some form of id attached.
Would I be required to wear a lanyard representing my political persuasion?
Questions, questions.
 
Would I be required to wear a lanyard representing my political persuasion?
Questions, questions.
Not just your politics, sweetcheeks!

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The signature word in your first sentence is "probably". Try reading again your second sentence "...council drones will not deviate from strict laid down guidance..." Of course staff won't, because it's basic that electoral rules should be (a) clearly publicised so voters know what's required and (b) then applied by the book, not made up by council "morons" and "drones" as they go along, otherwise you will find firearms certificates accepted at one polling station and refused at the next. Hope that makes it clearer.
Still in pedant mode, the people checking id at polling centres are volunteers, not necessarily council workers, drones or otherwise.
 
Nobody has to carry an ID card at all times.

I have an MOD90 and a warrant card and I only carry them when I need to.

The point is, making people produce ID to vote at a polling station to prevent voter fraud, where there is little or no voter fraud is nonsense, and would seem to be designed by people looking to deny a vote to other people who would vote for the other lot.

End postal voting. 99%+ problem solved.
Go for both, I say.
 
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