The 2023 local elections will need voter ID for the first time
There is not long left for residents across Lancashire to apply for a special document that they will need in order to vote in this year’s local elections – if they do not have a suitable form of photo ID.
Anybody wanting to cast an in-person vote at all future local, general and police and crime commissioner elections in England will have to present one of the accepted methods of photo-bearing ID. These include a driving licence, passport and older person’s bus pass.Those without any of the documents on the full government list will instead have to apply for a new voter authority certificate – but must do so by 5pm on 25th April, more than a week before polling day.
“[Staff]…have to sit there and make a decision on whether that photo ID is that person [standing in front of them] – and that could lead to some traumatic experiences, [causing] arguments [and] violence. It’s unworkable,” Cllr Boswell predicted. Liberal Democrat group leader John Potter noted that in previous trials of the system, a third of people did not bother to return with the necessary ID when they were refused a vote – either for arriving empty-handed or without an accepted document – on their initial visit to the polling station.
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