Voters across England will be turned away from polling stations today for lacking ID May 4th 2023 was a historic local election for all the wrong reasons. For the first time, voters in England were turned away from polling stations as they lacked the right forms of ID. The... Posted 04 May 2023
Nearly 119,000 signatures handed to No 10 calling for voter ID u-turn Campaign groups handed in nearly 119,000 petition signatures to 10 Downing Street this week, calling for the government to think again, and scrap its dangerous plans for voter ID. The petition delivery took place as... Posted 21 Apr 2023
With just weeks to go awareness of voter ID remains worryingly low With less than six weeks to May’s local elections, the problems with the government’s rollout of their disastrous rollout of voter ID are clearer than ever. As we race towards polling day concerns about the... Posted 28 Mar 2023
Why will the government’s voter ID scheme cost us up to £180,000,000 a decade? Making it harder for people to vote is an expensive business. The government’s impact assessment of the Elections Act suggested the new scheme demanding certain forms of ID at polling stations could cost up to... Posted 22 Feb 2023
Will I need photo ID to get a postal vote? Slowly, the country is waking up to the fact that the government have changed the rules for who can vote. Voters on the 4th of May who want to take part in local elections across... Posted 10 Feb 2023
Government plans heading for trouble as just 10,000 people apply for government-issued voter ID Evidence is building that the Government’s flagship voter ID policy is heading for failure and election day chaos in May as millions still lack the necessary ID to vote on election day. Last month polling... Posted 01 Feb 2023
All the ways the government decided not to make their voter ID rules fairer This May, millions of people will be asked to bring photo ID to the polling station for the first time. We’ve raised concerns that the list of ID options published by the government gives few... Posted 23 Jan 2023
£5.6 million to promote voter ID website that wasn’t live yet We told the government that voter ID was a costly distraction. First, it was £55m for new A4 polling cards and envelopes. Then cash-strapped councils were forced to spend £1.3m on thousands of mirrors and... Posted 10 Jan 2023
The top 5 most-read ERS articles from 2022 Every year we have a look through the stats to see which of our articles were the most popular with readers in the year coming to a close. So if you missed them the first... Posted 15 Dec 2022
Voter ID that you can use in UK elections – and how to get it All voters now need to bring a form of photographic identification to vote. The government has now confirmed in secondary legislation which photo IDs will be accepted, in a list which leaves few options for... Posted 22 Nov 2022