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Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Seriously? They made voting ID a council issue? Northern Ireland has had voting ID for a while and it's dead easy to get one, only thing I needed to pay was postage on a 2nd class stamp. Pretty good as well as it basically makes a free photographic ID available

[-] kofe@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

So, you had it mailed? Wouldn't that leave houseless people on the short end of this "dead easy" stick?

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

You can get stuff mailed to a sheltered accomodation or homeless shelter
You generally needed the polling card and an address to register to vote before this system, so I don't see how it makes a difference.

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