#VoterID in #England led to #racial and #disability #discrimination, report finds

All-party report on rules governing 2023 local elections calls voter ID system a ‘poisoned cure
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCorruption

"Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds"

Or, voter suppression law led to suppression of votes.

Result.

#VoterID #VoterSuppression

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Its now clear that #VoterID requirements in local election caused impediments to #voting along #racial lines & also impeded voting by the #disabled.

The review suggests Voter ID is a 'poisoned cure' to a minor problem; but of course, this was not a bug, but a feature of the policy.

As I said, #RishiSunak is criticising #China for interfering with #democracy in the UK, mainly because that's the #Tories job!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds | Electoral reform | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

#VoterID
#Racism
#Ableism
#Discrimation

Where the GOP Presidential Candidates Stand on Voting Rights and Democracy

Trump "stands alone in his attacks on democracy and voting rights."

What about other Republicans?

Hint: They're pathetic.

#Fascism #Democracy #Politics #DeSantis #NikkiHaley #TimScott #MikePence #ChrisChristie #VivekRamaswamy #DougSomething #AsaHutchinson #usnews #elections #VotingRights #VoterSuppression #VoteBlue #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy #VoteBlue2024 #voterid #ElectionDeniers #Gerrymandering

Oh look! Another case of #VoterFraud despite #VoterID! What a surprise.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/voter-idiocy?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=78354

#MPs fiddled with #VoterID as #electoral data security burned
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/08/mps-fiddled-with-voter-id-as-electoral-data-security-burned-electoral-commission-hack

@BathysphereHat

Also it's not as if the U.S. Government doesn't have [privatized] access to more data about it's citizens than would be permissible for any democracy like Germany or espechally Switzerland.

#VoterID is also a means of barring people from voting, just like #VoterTax was...

North Carolina is ground zero for Republican election fuckery of all sorts. The next coup attempt could easily start right here.

‘Ripe for political violence’: US election officials are quitting at an alarming rate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/30/us-election-officials-leaving-2024-elections-north-carolina?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#NCpol #democracy #votingRights #voterID #elections

Now we know at least 14,000 were blocked from voting, voter ID should be scrapped https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/now-we-know-at-least-14000-were-blocked-from-voting-voter-id-should-be-scrapped/ #VoterID

..focused on #Republican priorities: tightening #election rules, encouraging #VoterPurges, loosening campaign finance regs, banning private funding o election admin, repealing #Biden's exec order encouraging fed agencies 2 promote #VoterRegistration, penalizing states that allow noncitizens 2 vote in local elections, stricter #VoterID & mail-in voting laws; require all 1st-time voters who register using any method other than in-person at elections office 2 present ID.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/u-s-house-committee-sends-republican-voter-suppression-bill-to-house-floor/

UK #politics is increasingly patterned by money & the wealthy; the #Tories focus on the tiny incidence of #voting #corruption (introducing the problematic #voterID system), while doing nothing about troublesome donations to political parties;

all parties are stuck on the treadmill of searching for ever more donations to fight the next election.

But, as Peter Geoghehen suggests there is little hope fo any reform of such #Corruption.

UK's #democracy is badly damaged!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/10/british-political-giving-rich-abuse-tory-labour-election

@jackLondon @fkamiah17

I tend to agree with Jack - and fear that the #VoterID issue will make the effect worse!

I have since discovered that there may be an argument for the #Conservatives leaving #nadinedorries to stew for a while.
If the byelection date for mid Bedfordshire were postponed into October the new #voterID requirements would apply. This would hurt #Labour disproportionately but benefit the #libdems. A current poll puts #labour slightly ahead of the #conservatives in the constituency and the #LibDems a bad third. So a delay might save the #conservatives !

Free help to get a voter ID and information on your state’s specific rules.

Organizations like this help fight voter suppression and increase the vote. #VotingMatters #GetOutTheVote #VoterID #Vote

VoteRiders: Voter ID Help •
https://www.voteriders.org/

The survey was conducted by #yougov , a highly reputable polling firm. It asked about the reasons for not voting. Unprompted 4% of respondents gave #voterID requirements; prompted 7% did. Although full #voterturnout figures are not yet available it would be extraordinary and unprecedented for it to be more than a half in #LocalElections which did not coincide with a #GeneralElection. So the non-voters would have made up at least half of the electorate. Thus the effect has to be 2% at least.

The official line is that just 14,000 registered voters were definitely unable to vote on 4th May 2023 in the #localelections in #England. This amounts to 1 in 400; so not a significant problem to worry about - what David Cowling called "nonsense on stilts". This finding appears also to be welcomed in an official press release from the Department of Levelling Up - which again suggests that there was no significant #VoterSuppression as a result of the requirements for #VoterID .

Breaking News!

#electoralcommission interim report on impact of #voterID on #LocalElections2023 has been published today.

I expect to be tooting a few toots about its contents and implications over the next few days.

You have been warned!

In this week's net.wars, "Own goals", voter ID deterred thousands, or maybe hundreds of thousands, people from voting in England's May local elections; CNIL fines Criteo a lot; the FTC sues Amazon; and the large language model version of "AI" eats itself: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/06/23/own-goals/ #NetWars #AI #Amazon #Google #privacy #adtech #LLMs #voterID

Over 14,000 people were prevented from voting in #England due to #voterID changes, with ethnic minorities and unemployed voters being more likely to be turned away. #VoterSuppression #ToryBritain #ToryCorruption https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65988959