VOTER ID is a “concern” among all candidates campaigning in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, Katy Loudon has said.
With just days left before voters in the constituency go to the ballot box to pick their next MP, theShe pointed to the impact on the English local authority elections, where an estimated 14,000 people were denied a vote because they didn’t have the correct identification.The South Lanarkshire councillor for Cambuslang East was asked by journalists at a campaign event in Blantyre with First Minister Humza Yousaf if she had worries about the impact of Voter ID.
“So we’re doing our part every time we’re speaking to people on the doorstep, we’re sending that message. The Electoral Commission, which conducted a study of the impact of Voter ID on the English local authority elections earlier this year, said that 4% of people who did not vote said it was because they did not have the correct identification. However, the true impact could be much bigger.Following the introduction of the Election Act, voters have to show a document from a list of photographic IDs for every Westminster election across the UK, and for local elections in England.
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