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Yes, but if polling staff are told not to take action if they spot someone voting illegally, it will hardly be a surprise of polling station staff haven't been seen to take action against people voting illegally. I agree that postal voting is a far more likely source of fraud, but the absence...

To be fair, a lot of the absence of evidence is because they aren't looking for it. The people manning polling stations nowadays in our area were told (2010 or so) not to challenge people who come in to vote twice, or who fill in the paper for their wife (always that way round). Nor to report...

Voter fraud is done by post. There is a lot of that, though the powers that be are scarcely bothered about checking it. It's a pet bugbear of mine - by making postal votes easy, they have abolished the secret ballot. The secret ballot was designed to stop husbands/wives, landlords, employers...

That's inventing a problem that isn't going to happen. Poll clerks will be told that they shouldn't reject any voter who turns up with valid i.d. in the right name, just as they were previously told not to challenge even obvious cases of personation. Back in the day they had police officers on...

It's postal votes that make the voter i.d. completely pointless. That's where the voter fraud is to be found. One of the wards in Brierfield (near Burnley) always has turnouts of over 50%, sometimes as high as 70%, not because the voters are particularly politically aware, but because the...

So if 45% vote Tory, 45% vote Labour, and 10% vote Liberal, then everybody's happy because the 90% who voted Tory or Labour and the 10% who voted Liberal all get exactly the same weight to their votes? I would have thought that in that scenario, the 10% who voted Liberal get the power behind...

Who are the people most likely to vote? Pensioners. Who are the people most likely to have no photo i.d.? Pensioners. Your typical "working class Labour voter who works 40 hours a week" has a car and goes on foreign holidays nowadays.

They did this in Pendle last time. The most common forms of acceptable i.d. were passport, driving licence, and pensioner's bus pass. More ibscure stuff like Ministry of Defence pass or EU i.d. card were on the list as well. If you don't have any of those cards you can pre-register for an...