It's the exact same card and method of acquiring it as the 60+ one. You are engaging in mental gymnastics to excuse voter repression. Even if you agreed with the need for ID, there are no excuses for deliberately favouring older voters in it's implementation.
Laughing about it it like it's sending an apprentice on a wild goose chase is pretty glib. It'd be much more like stealing the apprentice's pay cheque and saying "hahahahaaaa come back next month you little oik when you've acquired your FREE certificate of pay cheque authenticity to prove who you are!"
Which would of course be a crime.
Are any young people who are eligible to vote
actually being prevented (this does not mean being
inconvenienced) from doing so?
No..so its not voter repression is it, its at best voter inconvenience...a contrived inconvenience maybe, but not repression?
Why would the government choose to do this and insert this 'inconvenience'? You say because lots of young people would not vote for the present government, but what about those young people that
would vote for the Government, wouldn't it be 'cutting noses off' to spite faces?
That isn't the issue though, is it? The point, and I'm sure you can see this, is that they have chosen to introduce ID to vote, whether you think that is reasonable or not and leaving aside the fact that voter fraud is close to non existent, with a list of acceptable IDs that is clearly and undeniably skewed towards the older in society. You seem to genuinely not think this Government has done this to suppress the group most likely to vote against them, despite their track record of sharp practice and clear contempt for democracy, and keep on calling people who may be disenfranchised lazy and uninformed. All this, despite you, yourself, having been proven to not be fully informed and you are actually quite passionate about such matters. Can you not see?
This an obvious occurrence, the longer people live the wider the range of ID is available to them, its nothing to do with being 'skewed'.
Figures from past elections (where no ID as such has been required
on the day) tend to show that many young people are, perhaps at that time in their life not that interested in politics or in voting. I am quite sure that at the next GE those young people who are interested will
make sure they do vote, whatever their choice is and make sure they are meeting the requirements so that they can do so, so surely this flies in the face of what you are insisting are the governments reasons for making life more difficult for young people to vote. That is the rate of information flow via younger people is ten times faster maybe even a hundred times fast, now there is social media etc. I would hazard a guess that there would be more older people,
who know less about this change, than their younger counterparts.
I appreciate that you and others on this site believe all this is a 'nasty Tory trick' to deprive young people of their right to vote, if it is, then it has the potential to go horribly wrong.... wouldn't you say?
