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Feb 2018
5:20pm, 25 Feb 2018
19,070 posts
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Meglet
What do you do if you need to present ID HowFar?
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Feb 2018
5:22pm, 25 Feb 2018
19,071 posts
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Meglet
RS, once you have your passport your driving licence is easier as they use the same photos. Sounds like a real pain, what you’ve been through today!
I’ve still a couple of things at my old address but have mail redirection for 12 months. Though they missed a few things, thankfully the new residents dropped them off at work.
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Feb 2018
5:22pm, 25 Feb 2018
13,049 posts
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HowFar?
I just use my electoral ID card.
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Feb 2018
6:34pm, 25 Feb 2018
20,614 posts
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Red Squirrel
Tried again on line so it's done now but to this address and I move in a month. Ah well.
My passport might be complicated too because I let the last one lapse.
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Feb 2018
8:29pm, 25 Feb 2018
7,706 posts
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Duchess
HowFar, what on earth is an electoral ID card? Is that a Northern Ireland special?
I've had to send my passport off to get it renewed, I keep feeling as though there's something missing from my handbag... And as soon as that gets back, it's time to get my driving licence renewed.
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Feb 2018
8:46pm, 25 Feb 2018
13,050 posts
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HowFar?
It must be, Duchess. We have to present some form of photo ID to vote, although I don’t think it has to be the electoral card. I think a passport or driving license can be used instead.
There was a massive increase in people applying for Irish passports here after the Brexit shambles.
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Feb 2018
10:57pm, 25 Feb 2018
19,072 posts
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Meglet
We don’t have to produce ID at all to vote. We don’t even need the invitation card, it does help, but you can just give address.
It always amazes me that it’s done by two people with a printed list, then they cross out the name in pencil and write a number on a list b
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Feb 2018
8:48pm, 26 Feb 2018
13,051 posts
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HowFar?
Ah, we have the people with the pencils and rulers as well.
We have single transferable vote though, rather than first past the post - unless it's a Westminster election of course.
Our school secretary has been one of the officials at polling stations for long enough to remember when there were armed policemen to escort ballot boxes from the polling stations to the place where the votes were counted.
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Feb 2018
9:16pm, 26 Feb 2018
7,708 posts
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Duchess
Proof of how recent and fragile democracy that we take for granted can actually be 
I was a last minute proxy for a colleague in the Brexit referendum and it was a major fuss to get all the paperwork signed and evidenced. It did occur to me that it would have been much easier to turn up and say "hello, I'm Shona...".
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Feb 2018
10:18pm, 26 Feb 2018
19,080 posts
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Meglet
I read that they don’t have more stringent checks because the odd person doing that wouldn’t make much of a difference and there’s not much evidence people do it anyway
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