UK ‘Inner City’ ID Voter Law to curb voter fraud

Rampant voter fraud amongst Indian, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani groups in Britain is so high, that the British government has been forced to introduce tough measures.

In future elections voters in “inner cities” now will have to show identification by law before being allowed to vote.

The British Minister for the Constitution, Chris Skidmore, announced that checks will take place at the 2018 local elections in areas the Electoral Commission has judged to be at the highest risk of “vote-rigging”.

Skidmore said that to “reduce electoral fraud,” the government would also take measures to “prevent the intimidation and undue influence of voters at the hands of activists and supporters, end the dubious practice of postal vote harvesting,” and, significantly, “consider measures for nationality checking that will prevent fraudulent voter registrations” on the government’s official website.

All areas in question have “high concentrations” of southern Asian residents, that “for the May 2018 elections, voters will be required to “bring ID to prove who they are before they can vote, preventing anyone fraudulently taking another person’s ballot paper,” Skidmore added.

Voters will now be asked to produce ID by local authorities before they can be given their ballot paper after another government report identified 16 Asian-run inner city areas around Britain where voter fraud was rampant.

Postal voters will also have to re-register every three years. Skidmore said the reforms would “protect anyone who is at risk of being bullied, undermined or tricked out of their vote”.

In 2014, the UK’s Electoral Commission, which oversees elections in that country, said that “fraud is more likely to be committed by or in support of candidates standing for election in areas which are largely or predominantly populated by some south Asian communities, specifically those with roots in parts of Pakistan or Bangladesh.”

Skidmore’s report mentions former mayor Lutfur Rahman from Tower Hamlets in east London, who was stripped of his post after being convicted of “voting irregularities”. He sai the case was a wake-up call “that more needs to be done to protect the integrity of our democracy”.

Skidmore also said the issue of “the use of languages other than English” in polling stations “could hide coercion or influence”. To combat the “potential for such illegal activity,” he declared, the government is “mindful of the broader integration agenda and the importance of all citizens being able to speak English to engage in society”.

Skidmore’s report moreover highlighted the fact that “there is no national register of UK nationals”.