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Originally Posted by Hugh
Not sure what your point is, as one of the accepted IDs is a National Identity Card issued by an EEA State?
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If you have an ID card from an EEA member state, that includes Norway and Iceland (and Lichtenstein in fact), whose citizens are not entitled to vote in any UK election because they are not in the EU. I don’t imagine Norwegians and Iclanders are queueing up to vote illegally in the UK but nevertheless, if the idea is only to accept ID that is obtainable by UK or EU citizens, anything you can get with an EEA ID would have to be excluded.
It may well be that they’ve used a sledgehammer to crack a nut here. I’m not minded to try to defend the whole bureaucratic edifice, except from the ludicrous charge of voter suppression that has got certain sections of the commentariat fulminating.