Voter ID: Young People

Part of Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at on 1 December 2022.

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Photo of Nadia Whittome Nadia Whittome Labour, Nottingham East

The regulations listing documents that will be accepted as voter ID were not in the Elections Bill, but, instead, were in secondary legislation. If MPs had had the opportunity to scrutinise that, many of us would have opposed the clear discrimination that sees a far more limited range of acceptable ID for younger voters compared with older voters. Has the Electoral Commission a view on whether such a limited range is appropriate and were its views sought in the process of compiling a final list?