Post #1173109
2023-02-02 18:34 UTC
Replies (25)
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@MKSinSA@social.vivaldi.net 2023-02-02 19:32
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales The same is true in many US states, with same flimsy justifications. It's taken volunteer groups to push free voter ID awareness.
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@Jayenkai@mastodon.social 2023-02-02 20:28
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales i was SOOOOO disappointed that this is just an A4 sheet of paper. I really desperately need some kind of photo ID card!!!
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@BibbleCo@infosec.exchange 2023-02-02 21:29
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales I will bd turning up at the Polling Station purely to register that I'm not going to produce ID, and uf ghat means I can't vote, so be it. Hopefully the Electoral Commission or suchlike will be gathering feedback on how many people are turned away. (There's no chance of affecting the local result.) If its not abandoned by then, I'll probably pinch my nose and produce at the GE, though.
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@kaydenpat@mastodon.social 2023-02-02 23:16
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Whoa. So the UK is following the US with the voter ID nonsense. Sad to see.
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@ash@dice.camp 2023-02-03 08:27
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Thanks for the reminder. Turns out my expired passport will do. Yay!
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@julesbl@mastodon.me.uk 2023-02-03 09:10
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Sad to see voter suppression her in the UK #UK #voting #voterSupression #TorysOut
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@TheWalrus@mastodon.online 2023-02-03 10:49
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales If I was still in the habit of canvassing door to door, I would be offering to help people with getting the necessary document. There doesn't appear to be a form available to take round (could be wrong about that) but a good tablet or laptop connected to that internet thingy would make it possible to do online applications for those with no internet, I hope.
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@andijarvis@mastodonapp.uk 2023-02-03 13:30
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales I’m 100% not a Tory, but have a different view on this. I suspect they have launched these changes to try and drive away voters who don’t vote for them. But when I moved to NI, I found out that voter ID is mandatory. The turnout rates in NI are pretty similar to everywhere else in the UK. Obviously we don’t know who is voting, but top line figures are comparable.
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@UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk 2023-02-03 13:57
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales in 2019, they're were just 33 cases of voter fraud. As there were 58m votes, this works out as 0.000057%. We all know why they're doing this, they're trying everything to stay in power. It's disgusting! Want further proof? A young person's railcard isn't a valid photo ID but an OAPs card is! Come on! FFS!
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@Henrysbridge@toot.wales 2023-02-03 14:50
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Worse - types of id biased towards older (allegedly* more likely to vote tory) people - eg, bus pass etc. But, students' university passes etc not accepted??? *Allegedly as recent research seems to suggest this isn't happening as much as it used to (citation needed)
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@miguelpergamon@kolektiva.social 2023-02-03 16:41
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales My expired passport is valid as i.d. till about December 2023 / January 2024. (There's also at least one fake [but Government-made one] out there in the wild (the cop-bastards have been doing fraud with my identity).)
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@LDJ@mastodon.green 2023-02-03 18:53
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales It’s annoying that they’re not making it clear to people (at least in the adverts I’ve seen) that you can also get a postal vote, which you don’t need photo ID for.
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@mattbarlowe@skrimmage.com 2023-02-03 19:57
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales I see the British conservatives are taking a page out of the American playbook to disenfranchise people
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@wiseguyeddie@stranger.social 2023-02-03 19:58
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales THIS is why I am addicted to Mastodon for politics. The republican fascists in America have given the playbook to fascists in the UK. The similarities in the strategy to destroy democracy are obvious. #uspol #WorldNews #liberal #Democracy
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@crysophylax@neurodifferent.me 2023-02-03 20:41
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales is people not voting as big a problem in the UK as it is in the US?
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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz 2023-02-05 09:08
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Specifically the implication that you'll be turned away at the polling station without one if you've changed your name lately and/or if you don't look like old pictures of yourself any more. Hmmm, can't help but do A Big Think about that :thaenkin:
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@dralant@mastodon.social 2023-02-05 09:26
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Passport ID system? - The UK Brexit Government does more control. 😔
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@alanfleming@mastodon.me.uk 2023-02-05 09:30
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Do you know of any campaigning body who are taking this up? It needs spread far and wide.
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@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social 2023-02-05 09:56
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales this message needs to be heard as far and wide as possible. I overheard a conversation in the council I work in this week that those working on the frontline of the elections are very worried indeed. They don’t want to have to turn voters away and they really fear the response they will get from those who have no idea photo ID is the new reality. It could get nasty.
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@FSonder@mastodon.ie 2023-02-05 10:22
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales It will be a shock to many Election Officals in a UK Parliament election, that the Photo ID shown is an Irish Passport. I wonder will they, (wrongly) try and block the individual from voting?
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@GaiaAgain@mastodonapp.uk 2023-02-05 12:37
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Also there’s the option to apply for a permanent postal vote. (Haven’t checked all the replies, sorry if that’s a duplicate response.)
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@Melinda@mstdn.social 2023-02-05 16:13
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales I wonder why the BBC and the UK tabloid press are not headlining this information? Surely they cannot be aiding and abetting voter suppression? I wonder why they'd do that? We desperately need an independent press. CNN and French stations give a much clearer view of UK current affairs, than our own Tory controlled media.
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@Deji@newsie.social 2023-02-05 18:21
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales It is apparent the oligarch-bought Tories are just like our oligarch-bought Republican Party. @GOP@mastodon.social
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@stephenwhq@mastodon.social 2023-02-06 22:11
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales Crap law BUT many many items of photo ID will do. You don't have to get the Voter Authority Certificate (??!!) if you have passport driving licence or a whole range of existing stuff listed here https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/voter-id
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2023-04-15 11:32
@AngharadHafod@toot.wales If your requesting a postal vote end the request straight back to your local elections team. Not any address belonging to the Tory party (or any other party).