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Blimey - you are a man for bold claims. "Nobody ever did it". In hundreds of millions of votes cast in this country before voter ID was in place, you are saying that absolutely no-one has ever cast a vote for someone else. I would be amazed if that were true.

Does anyone have details on how, when and why polling station staff did previously undertake some sort of validation to satisfy themselves that voter fraud wasn't happening? Maybe 1-in-X voters were subject to extra scrutiny? If so, what was X? Edit: I didn't say it was a widespread issue. I...

We’ve been round this loop before some months back. We do not have EVIDENCE of a problem of voter fraud. That’s not to say there isn’t (wasn’t) a problem with voter fraud. If millions of people can just walk into a polling station and vote with little/no validation in place - how would we...

Over 40 countries in Europe, numerous government changes over the decades and you don't know under which of them voter ID came into play nor how it was introduced. You have a lot more surety in your guesses than I do in my own. To be clear, I'm not arguing the toss on the Tory administrations...

"I doubt though..." means you're guessing, which is fair enough. I couldn't be arsed to go and research how other countries implemented this either.

I'll state again that I've got no strong feeling on this either way. I'm certainly not saying what I'm about to say because I'm banging a drum FOR voter ID, however... 1. Ever since I could first vote, I've always thought it a bit strange that it's possible to just rock up to a polling station...

Is that the same French who have to prove ID in order to vote?