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To: Brumar89 who wrote (67685)	10/23/2008 7:10:33 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Well here, in order to vote, you don't need ID as such. You register on the electoral roll, IIRC requiring a NI number (like your SS number) and you need to be on there typically around a year to guarantee getting a vote (not a problem normally, forms are sent out every few years to every household and you specially declare any 16/17 year olds). A voting card is mailed to each house prior to an election, for each person there entitled to vote. They take that to the voting station, hand it in and get a ballot paper. No ID necessary: but unless the electoral roll is somehow seriously ****ed up you only get one card. The roll itself is cross-checked and I've never heard of any cases of fraud, or people somehow registering multiple times, or whatever. The only fraud I've heard of here relates to absentee (postal) ballots, especially in local elections with small turnouts: these are notoriously intercepted and returned illegitimately (especially in association with a few immigrant-rich wards where a lot of people share the same house). If you register in a new place, you're removed from the old (I have a feeling you need to declare the previous address). I guess this is where separate states maintaining separate rolls is an issue? But it makes sense to me to require ID when you're registered, so there's plenty of time to check any discrepancies. Not when you vote and it's all a rush.