Voter ID confidence drops

By Hiba Mahamadi | 12 June 2019

The proportion of people who think voter ID helps to prevent electoral fraud has dropped from 52% in 2016 to 35% in 2019, new research has found.

Chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society pressure group, Darren Hughes, said: ‘These figures further discredit the Government’s undemocratic push for mandatory voter ID.

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