Electoral Reform Society urges government to do more on Voter ID

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Voter ID was first introduced under Boris Johnson's government in 2023.
53% : The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) is calling on the government to do more on Voter ID.
53% : "Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them - as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections.
50% : The truth of the matter is that voter ID has always been a solution in search of a problem and has created problems that weren't there before.
50% : " The ERS noted how the reasons for implementing voter ID are dubious, namely, levels of voter impersonation in Britain are very low.
50% : Talking at the National Conservative Conference in 2023, Jacob Rees-Mogg, cabinet office minister and business secretary at the time, said that voter ID was an act of 'gerrymandering' that 'upset a system that worked perfectly well'.
48% : "In short, voter ID has already prevented tens of thousands of people casting their vote, leaving them excluded from decisions that affect them, and adding to a general sense of disconnect with our democracy," says the ERS.
47% : What we are focused on is improving the system and making sure that we look at what else we can do in relation to voter ID, and getting those legitimate voters who are excluded included.
46% : The ERS says the truth of the matter is that voter ID has always been a solution in search of a problem and has created problems that weren't there before.
40% : In 2019, which was the last general election before voter ID was enforced, just 33 allegations of someone impersonating someone else in the voting stations were made.
39% : The electoral reform campaigners say they are "deeply disappointed" at the government's decision to keep voter ID rules.
38% : In mid-March, the government's democracy minister, Rushanara Ali, said she has no plans to scrap voter ID.
33% : By drastically expanding the list of ways you can prove who you are, the government could remove the worst excesses of voter ID," says the ERS.

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