Politics General Election 2017

[BloodOmen]

The Tories might just have stopped millions of people voting in future elections

 

[Raven]

Queue resuming talks on mandatory photo ID.

But yeah, politicians with an electoral majority love it when people don't vote. Not voting is doing exactly what May wants people to do. There is going to be a while load of bad shit pushed through over the next 4 years because the Torys are going to landslide it with a tiny proportion of those eligible to vote actually voting for them. I bet lots of people will complain about them though.

 

[Ormorof]

Who the fuck doesnt have a photo id ffs its 2017 get with the times UK

 

[Raven]

I have 3 and look different in every one!

 

[Ormorof]

Dont you need to prove your id to vote in uk anyway? Or can anyone just wander in?

 

[Tom]

Dont you need to prove your id to vote in uk anyway? Or can anyone just wander in?

No, if you're on the electoral roll you just walk into your nearest polling station, tell them your name, they ask you to confirm your address, then cross you off the list. Then you vote.

Personally I'd rather we investigated lowering the voting age to 16 (I don't see why taxpaying 16-year-old children shouldn't be allowed to vote while they can join the army), and allowing the option of electronic voting. Yes, I know the latter is controversial, but you'd get a hell of a bigger electorate if it were possible to vote with your phone.

 

[Raven]

Dont you need to prove your id to vote in uk anyway? Or can anyone just wander in?

You get a card in the post with your name and address on it, which you hand to the person at the polling station, then they ask you to confirm your name and address.

Its a bit dumb to be honest.

 

[ECA]

You get a card in the post with your name and address on it, which you hand to the person at the polling station, then they ask you to confirm your name and address.

Its a bit dumb to be honest.

Except they mark you off at the voting location, so if multiple people try voting it's picked up immediately.
In person voter fraud is nonexistent. Probably <10 cases per election, maybe less.

Early voter mail fraud is a much bigger problem, especially in certain communities I can't name without being labelled racist

 

[Raven]

Yes they do, but seeing as the only form of check they carry out to get you to read what is on the card, its pretty dumb. With so many people refusing to vote its pretty open to people simply selling their ticket.

I have no idea how often it happens, or even how the could detect it, as no name (rightfully) is recorded on the actual card you vote with. You could report it stolen but there would be nothing they could do after the vote.

 

[Job]

Queue resuming talks on mandatory photo ID.

But yeah, politicians with an electoral majority love it when people don't vote. Not voting is doing exactly what May wants people to do. There is going to be a while load of bad shit pushed through over the next 4 years because the Torys are going to landslide it with a tiny proportion of those eligible to vote actually voting for them. I bet lots of people will complain about them though.

Theyll never get that past a country that just voted to leave the EU, you would see mass disobedience..ID cards will only come for banking and identity protection...being asked to carry one is a total no no

 

[Raven]

You would be amazed what they can get away with when half the population are apathetic.

 

[Tom]

which you hand to the person at the polling station

No, you don't.

 

[Ormorof]

You get a card in the post with your name and address on it, which you hand to the person at the polling station, then they ask you to confirm your name and address.

Its a bit dumb to be honest.

This explains the story about the man who registered his pig to vote

 

[Raven]

Yeah, corrected by Tom, I guess. I always just give it to them, I thought you were supposed to...I guess they just bin it.

Turns out you don't even have to present it. Even more stupid.

 

[Delboy]

You get a card in the post with your name and address on it, which you hand to the person at the polling station, then they ask you to confirm your name and address.

Its a bit dumb to be honest.

And interesting enough in East Africa they are using biometrics to ID government office staff and for voting and simcard registration. Who'd have thought.

 

[Ormorof]

Whats to stop someone being registered under different names at two different addresses with different voting stations?

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Whats to stop someone being registered under different names at two different addresses with different voting stations?

Apathy mostly

 

[Gwadien]

Apathy mostly

That reminds me, I need to unregister from my Uni house.

We used to get 7-8 voting cards there.

 

[Raven]

You will struggle to vote for chairman Corbyn and his mates, if you aren't registered to vote at the correct address!

 

[Gwadien]

You will struggle to vote for chairman Corbyn and his mates, if you aren't registered to vote at the correct address!

I'm registered at both, they sent cards to both

 

[Raven]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shIOZdEzkiU&t=0s

 

[Scouse]

I notice your farron thing @Raven - May's an active paid-up regularly attending god botherer too btw.

 

[Gwadien]

THEREFORE CORBYN IS THE ONLY OPTION

 

[BloodOmen]

Made me laugh

http://newsthump.com/2017/05/18/con...&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

Mental image of Theresa May forgetting her words and coughing to try and get by now xD

 

[BloodOmen]

Theresa May to shut down the internet as we know it

bye bye internet freedoms. tory police state in 5...... 4..... 3.....

 

[caLLous]

Good luck with that, Mrs. May.

 

[old.user4556]

I don't even know what to say to that.

/looks at VPN providers

 

[Moriath]

Theresa May to shut down the internet as we know it

bye bye internet freedoms. tory police state in 5...... 4..... 3.....

Cant happen. Too many ways around it.

 

[BloodOmen]

Cant happen. Too many ways around it.

Oh I know, people will just hug proxy/vpns to get around anything they do... won't stop the cunts trying though.

 

[Scouse]

It will affect the masses. Period.

As long as the majority of people are government whipping bitches then they'll be happy. A minority circumventing is of no interest.

Continue to vote Tory though.