As I recall, that particular case centered around postal vote fraud, rather than "in person" voting. As Ben points out, presenting VoterID won't actually fix the that issue.
B On 8 January 2014 17:46, Bobby Brewster <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem occurs when a two bedroom terraced house in inner London > mysteriously contains 45 people registered on the Electoral Register all > with similar sounding names. > > These names may well derive from practicioners of a certain religion. > > -------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 1/8/14, Ben Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [ORG-discuss] UK Electoral Commission wants to introduce > Voter ID > To: "Open Rights Group open discussion list" < > [email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 8:17 AM > > IIRC the biggest area of > fraud in UK elections is via postal votes. How would > mandatory ID solve this? > > > On 8 January 2014 > 15:49, David Durant <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > My point: absence of evidence is not evidence of > absence. > > It's rather sidetracking the thread but that premise can > lead to all kinds of issues. We don't know that the > person living next door isn't plotting a terrorist > attack so therefor we'll monitor his (and everyone > else's) private data communications just in case. > > > In this particular case, as with so many others, > I think it comes down to risk vs. reward and damage. If a > lot of money is spent to prevent a small amount of fraud and > in the same instance a lot of people are disenfranchised > then the whole system is questionable. > > > It's hard to discuss this without reliable > statistics but I would start off by asking whether > anyone thinks enough organised voter fraud is > happening in the UK to actually change the outcome of > elections? > > > > > -- > > Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our > future: > > https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join > > > > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to > [email protected] > > or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > -- > Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: > https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join > > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to > [email protected] > or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss > > -- > Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: > https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join > > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to > [email protected] > or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss > -- http://about.me/bryns/bio
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