Do your "bobbies" still not carry guns, too?
Sadly, quite a lot do. At least in areas judged sensitive - parts of central London, airports and the like. Not just little pistols, either...
this is Heathrow, terminal 5. Not a bad terminal, BTW.
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Just steal the cards from post boxes and send replacement 'voters' out early on election day.
I think it's my turn to catch you on cultural details <g> I've never, ever seen a US-style road-side post box in the UK.
Most houses are closer to the road, and post goes directly through the slot in the front door.
In the relatively small number of houses gated off, there will be a postbox typically built into the (brick) garden wall facing the street - slot (with security flap) on the outside, locked door for removing post on the inside.
So you might conceivably remove one or two poll cards somehow from these, but it would be tricky and extremely obvious, and not enough for any significant volume of fraud.
Postal ballots are more prone to fraud, when one person - often a landlord - intercepts and completes all the ballots for a house he owns with mass occupation, and posts them all back. But that's someone with access to the house.
Frankly, there is, IMHO, no valid reason for opposing picture IDs to vote. ...
The arguments against photo IDs to vote are pure political BS - lies designed to make minority and elderly voters think that (mostly) Republican lawmakers are trying to deny them a vote. A dishonest scare tactic.
I thought there used to be intimidation particularly at blacks (rather than the elderly) using tactics dating back to the Jim Crow days.
I don't see a problem with showing ID when voting: but I do see it's used (not sure by whom) and is depicted as done to scare minority voters, so I assume they see some reason to be scared...?
But it's not something I get excessively bothered about either way. |
