AndyRM
Elder Goth
Until recently my wife had no acceptable id
I asked my local council for help in getting her a voter id before the last local elections
the answer was that they had put in place what they could - but that the government was not saying exactly what the requirements were for accepting other id and using it to issue a voter id
the problem was that she has no photo id (old driving license and passport well out of date)
and I pay all the bills - for historic reasons
hence she has no way of proving who she is based on the rules
as it happened we decided to go on holiday to Greece so she got a passport
so the problem was got round by paying for it
but if we had not wanted to go abroad then - effectively - she would have had to pay for her to be able to vote
which is wrong no patter how you spin it
unless you can show proof of a major voter fraud problem - which no-one can
The passport thing is interesting - mine had expired but I was told it was acceptable ID, both to show who I was and also to sign up for the ID form thing, which I did for no particular reason other than that I could.
It's got my married name on it too, which isn't the one I'm registered to vote with, so the whole system is pretty flawed. When I lived in Sunderland I was somehow on the electoral role twice as well!