So, in the last election there were only 6 cases of electoral #fraud (#MattHancock has reluctantly admitted). This from a #voting population of over 45M
You'll be aware of the number of cases of fraud by #Tory MPs (from a population of 355) exceeds this in nominal terms & is vastly larger in proportional terms.
So, let be clear, #voterID is about voter suppression not fraud.
If the #Tories were interested in #democratic fraud they'd put their own house in order.
h/t Roland Hoskins/Bird site
#Tories are using the *exact* voter suppression playbook that #Republicans in the US use. To inoculate themselves from accountability.
@BernieWonIowa @ChrisMayLA6
VoterID is me way. How else?
@TCatInReality Voter ID doesn't work to suppress votes (turns out lefties can adult enough to get an id, who knew?).
Other accusations include things like making it harder to get a mail-in ballot, purging voter registrations (but again, lefties are adults too), gerrymandering (drawing districts funny so your team wins more of them), shenanigans to keep polling places open longer or closed earlier depending on which team that area goes for, voting age cutoff or not accepting student ids (young people lean left, I guess), not letting felons vote (do felons lean one way or another?) not making voting day a holiday (again with adulting), causing terrible weather on voting day, earlier voter registration deadlines (again the implication that lefties don't have their act together), not having enough polling places in big cities (urbanites lean left, I guess), disability access (do disabled people predominately vote one way or another?) not having ballots printed up in enough different languages, not accepting native american tribal ids (I don't know if Tories can use that trick), etc, etc, etc.
I don't think many of these work terribly well. It's pretty easy to vote.
@ech
I was looking for more examples of Tories adopting GOP tactics, but thanks.