I was reading through a BREXIT piece and came to this odd fact about the UK. They have no national ID card.
There were ID papers for the WW II period, but as soon as the war ended....the paper ID requirement went away.
Back in 2006, the Parliament attempted to pass legislation to require a national ID, but by 2010, that had been cancelled out.
So one of the questions for this quick run-up election is that the conservatives want to have an mandatory ID required for the vote process. Oddly enough, just about all of the opposition parties are against this.
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It's the same in the United States.
There have been several federal and state initiatives to try to incorporate some kind of Photo ID requirement for voting, but they've all been defeated by court orders or political wrangling, principally by Democrats.
A large proportion of the illiegal vote would be curtailed by the simple threat of being forced to show any kind of ID - photo or not, which is why the American left take it as such a serious threat. They claim it would "disenfranchise" poor Americans, even though States have offered to make issue the ID cards free of charge. The Left just hems and haws, but really it's about illegal voting, whether using dead people's information which would be wiped from voting rolls, illegal aliens voting, being able to easily track people who are voting in multiple counties, etc.
In America, you can't drink, smoke or drive a car without photo ID, but you can vote without photo ID.
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