Labour Govt Kills Voter ID Law, Slashes Voting Age to 16
The Labor Government announces the modification of the modification of the law on the identification of voters of Great Britain by removing the requirements for the identification of the photos and by reducing the voting age from 18 to 16 years.
Under international and British law, a child is a person under 18, but at the time of the next general elections in the United Kingdom, the 16 and 17 years will be legally authorized to vote for their next deputy and will not need a photo-ID to do so, the Labor government announced.
Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister of Sir Keir Starmer, announced the change by saying that “for too long, public confidence in our democracy has been damaged and faith in our institutions has been authorized to refuse”, which apparently implies the question of confidence in British politics was caused by the change of demographic change for adults.
Announcing the response to this break in faith, Rayner continued: “We take measures to break the obstacles to participation which guarantee that more people have the opportunity to engage in British democracy”.
In the past, the franchise has been set at 18 years alongside other major questions that require a higher level of mental maturity. Criminals are generally not judged by adult courts before the age of 18, and a soldier cannot be deployed operational before the age of 18, for example.
The new difference within the age limits imposed by the government was taken up by the conservative spokesman Paul Holmes, who said: “Why does this government think that a 16-year-old can vote but not be authorized to buy a lottery ticket, an alcoholic drink, marry or go to war or even to stand in the elections in which they voted?
Another preservative called the “Was shameless Gerrymandering” movement and said: “If we don’t think 16 years old is the age of adult maturity, why does the government do this?”.
Unlike some of the strong radical changes in recent months by the Starmer government, the change of votes for children has been at least promised in their manifesto, and work can affirm that there is a democratic mandate for change. As indicated at the time, the idea was launched for the first time:
… This decision would add around 1.5 million people under the age of 18 to the electoral lists, marking the largest expansion of the electorate since the voting age from 21 to 18 years by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1969.
The plan seemed to be on the verge of abandonment in recent months, however, while the British reform party of Nigel flourishing among young voters seemed to kill the incitement of work to lead to adolescents in the electorate.
As it stands, Mr. Farage spoke out against change on Wednesday, declaring that even if his party was standing, he still thought it was bad. L’Express Cited his comments as follows: “It is an attempt to compel the political system, but we intend to give them a bad surprise.”
Mr. Farage said that he had not supported the change “even if we would get a lot of votes”, adding: “I don’t think you should be able to vote in an election unless you are also eligible to be a candidate, and I do not think that the 16 years should represent Parliament.”
Other reforms of the electoral law announced today are measures to protect “our elections against abuse”, said Rayner, including the rules for the identification of voters, so that a form of identification is no longer required.
A bank card with the names of the voters would be sufficient in the future, by destroying the electoral security measures implemented by the last government. The government said in a press release: “As part of the plans, the government will be further to ensure that eligible voters are not dissuaded to vote, by expanding the identification of voters to allow the use of bank cards issued in the United Kingdom as a form of identification accepted in the ballot … Research on the property of bank cards show that more than 96% of the British population has a bank account, majority with a bank card. “.
Another change is to be on the financing of the campaign, the work confirming the introduction of an anti-Elon musk rule, first seriously discussed last year after Musk suggested that it would give $ 100 million in Nigel Farage to help refocus British politics, scandalizing politicians from other parts who had been relaxed about the state of the state of Great Britain. Under the new rules, the so-called “screens companies” would be prevented from making a donation to political parties and it would be necessary to prove that money given by companies had been earned in the United Kingdom, not transferred from abroad.
The Minister of Democracy, Rushanara Ali, said: “By strengthening guarantees against foreign interference, we will strengthen our democratic institutions and protect them for future generations.”
