Ifwecouldjust.......
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The frustrating thing with posters sometimes is they simply don't know enough stuff about stuff, really, really, basic stuff, so they end up posting something like this, calling bluethrunthru's post ridiculous when it is a given, in every democracy in the world, that if you introduce id requirements at polling booths, it disadvantages the disadvantaged and the poor, who tend not to be particularly well educated and in some cases illiterate, or English isn't their first language, but what these people do have is a greater tendency to vote Labour, if they vote at all, rather more so than the educated middle classes who tend to vote Tory.
These excluded people often don't carry id with them or are intimidated by authority and bureaucracy, they tend not to be plugged in to the system in the same way as those who are motivated to vote are. Those people who are well plugged in to the system have a tendency to vote to keep the system as it is.
The changes brought in by the Tories have also disadvantaged students, again, a demographic more likely to vote Labour. In fact if you look at the history of voting it is always the liberal left who have advanced the plebiscite and the right that has restricted it, sometimes through legislation, sometimes through bureaucracy and always through the insidious drip, drip, that politicians are all the same, nothing can change, so keep things as they are.
Everywhere the right, to varying degrees, puts barriers in the way of the poor voting, from gerrymandering to boundary changes, this is well known, it isn't even contentious, you need to read up on this stuff before you blurt out piffle like this.
Excellent post