ID cards and postal voting
Despite his resignation from cabinet, David Blunkett is still plugging ID cards whenever he can:
David Blunkett has called for urgent action on electoral fraud following the Birmingham vote-rigging scandal.
The former home secretary described the case in which six Labour councillors were found guilty of postal vote fraud as “totally outrageous”.
He called for individual rather than household voter registration – backed up by a national ID card scheme.
Of course, a moment’s thought reveals that ID cards wouldn’t prevent any kind of “citizen not present” fraud, such as fraudulent postal voting, precisely because the citizen and his ID card aren’t available to be verified.
Mr Blunkett’s comments do nothing to dispel the impression that compulsory ID cards are a solution looking for a problem – and not finding one.
April 7th, 2005 at 09:59
Labour Postal Voting Fraud is Birmingham – guess who thinks that the solution must be Identity Cards ?
Guess which politcian thinks that the solution to the Labour Party Postal Voting Scandal in Birmingham, is somehow, a compulsory national identity card and “clean database” ? As the NO2ID News Blog comments: “Of course, a moment’s thought reveals …
April 7th, 2005 at 12:07
Blunkett’s Bang
Hello, my name is David Blunkett. I used to run a government department called the Home Office. That, I think, makes me uniquely qualified as an expert in the area of infidelity. You know, the main problem with the fight…
April 7th, 2005 at 12:39
I must be psychic
A couple of weeks ago, in a post about Birmingham’s vote fraud, I wrote:
Of course, I fully expect someone from the Labour Party – with the sheer brazen chutzpah that comes effortlessly to them – to argue that this is a great argument for ID cards….
April 7th, 2005 at 14:29
Postal Voting Fraud
With the recent postal voting debacle (why is this not front and centre as an election issue?) and the judge damning labour activists as falsifying postal votes, David Blunkett is now claiming with great brazenness that ID cards would be…
April 7th, 2005 at 15:05
Challenge Tony
The MakeMyVoteCount site links to a site which tries to prompt people to ‘talk to Tony’ To this list I would also add ‘Following the recent condemnation of Labour activitsts in the midlands, how exactly would ID cards prevent Postal…
April 20th, 2005 at 10:44
Of course they would say this. If verification of voting was linked to identity cards then the identity controlling Home Office would have the power to nullify votes. How could we be sure this was always on grounds of identity rather than how a person would vote.
Identity cards and the NIR would be a tool for vote fraud.