Plans for UK Voter ID ‘Unachievable’

Perhaps spurred on by the unfounded allegations of US voters taking on false IDs that, at least in part, led to the ‘Stop the Steal’ storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 (see IDN August 2021), the UK government introduced an Elections Integrity Bill which has been working its way through the UK parliament (see IDN June 2021).

But now, ministers have been urged to scrap plans contained in the Bill to introduce mandatory voter ID after a government report said the project ‘appears to be unachievable’.

The policy was originally forced through by Boris Johnson’s government despite there being no evidence of widespread in- person voter fraud taking place, and amid warnings it could strip thousands of people of the right to vote.