Tory plot to lengthen their lifetime in money making power is working like ‘MAGIC'

LibDems and Labour missing-out on placing the onus on Councils by failing to push postal voting.

The BBC has been looking and reporting on preparations for the May local elections. 

Their published survey suggests that the uptake of Voter Authority Certificates, introduced by the Tories in Government alongside the new requirement for voters to provide photo ID at their polling station, has been extremely low across more densely populated areas with high levels of deprivation. 

The take up has been ‘horrendously low’ in the North-East of England, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire. 

Checking on regional BBC news reports it is now believed by Democratic Services Officers in Councils and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that hundreds of thousands of potential voters may currently be without a suitable ID.

The Constitution society published a document on the Tory Governments change in voting law during late 2022 and entitled their work ‘an accident waiting to happen’.

With Labour sitting 20 points ahead of the Conservatives in the polls the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of working people will nullify that lead and organisations working in the field of equality find it abhorrent that neither the LibDems nor Labour have been pushing or advertising to increase the take up of postal voting as the best way to deal with this dreadful anti-democratic legislation.

Editorial Notes

https://consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/John-Ault-Report.pdf

https://www.jrf.org.uk/blog/government-must-not-disenfranchise-low-income-voters-polls

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-a-postal-vote