Lancashire voter ID worry as one in five without acceptable photo identification
More than one in five people in one part of Lancashire are at risk of being disenfranchised in upcoming elections.
A wide variety of forms are accepted, including driving licences and elderly bus passes. A full list is available here. Top of the government’s list of accepted forms of photo ID are passports.That will be a problem for 30,805 people in Blackpool. That’s how many people in the local authority area don’t have a passport, according to the latest government data.
Hyndburn has the next highest percentage in our region , followed by Burnley . However, those without a form of photo ID needn’t despair. In an interview with BBC Radio Norfolk, Conservative MP and former cabinet minister Brandon Lewis said: “I think the government was right to say that people having a bit of ID, the same as you’d have [...] to go to a post office and collect a parcel or take a book out from the library is not unreasonable, to just give that extra bit of protection to our democratic process.”
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