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.
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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.