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It would mean people need identification to vote in a polling station, as is already the case in Northern Ireland, where photo ID is required.
Councillor Alex Staniforth says there s no need for voter ID.
The proposals would affect UK elections only, but the UK government is talking to devolved governments about extending it to assembly elections in Scotland and Wales.
Now, Green Party councillor Alex Staniforth is calling on Edinburgh City Council to reject voter ID and to refuse to implement it if the UK government tries to introduce it.
A motion from councillor Staniforth, set to be debated at a full meeting of the council on Thursday May 27, reads: “Following the 2019 UK general election only four people were convicted of voter fraud and that the electoral commission states, ‘the UK has very low levels of proven electoral fraud’.
Mr Brown says muscular Unionism is the root of the trouble
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As Labour stalwarts – what’s left of them – consider the wreckage of last Thursday’s latest humiliation at the hands of the SNP in their former heartlands and wonder what to do next, it would be natural for them to look to their big guns for an answer.
If so, I’m not sure they’ll get much succour from one of the biggest: Gordon Brown. In another of his extraordinary forays into the public arena he has come up with a familiar – for him – solution to the current problems besetting the Union.
Suspicious ballot paper seized at Edinburgh count
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May 9, 2021
EDINBURGH: A possible case of electoral fraud is being investigated by police at the Edinburgh count for the Holyrood election.
A suspicious ballot paper was seized after a would-be voter in the Edinburgh Northern and Leith constituency tried to vote, only to be stopped because someone had already cast a ballot in their name.
Candidates and polling agents were summoned on Saturday morning as counting got under way in Edinburgh to witness count staff and police attempt to track down the vote in question.
Depute returning officer Chris Highcock confirmed that the vote allegedly cast in someone else’s name – a crime known as personation – had been located and was being investigated by police.