Voting Twice

[lindapalmara]

My granddaughter is at university and is voting there tomorrow in Bath. My son received a voting paper sent to her home address. She won't vote twice but lots of students will, for Corbyn because he has promised to scrap tuition fees. These youngsters don't realise that they will have to pay for it when they are older and the country is "the basket case of Europe with high interest rates, strikes every week with flying pickets.

[Mamyalynne]

Lots of things shouldn't happen but do, the best one can do is to seriously reduce the opportunities available for lawbreakers.


https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/our-views-and-research/our-research/electoral-fraud-data


#eventonkatoysbreak

[Mozz71]

Is this the Boris Brigade getting their excuses ready in case it all goes pear shaped tomorrow?

[naomi24]

This is easily solved. The requirement for an NHS number when registering to vote is all that is needed. Duplicate numbers, one is deleted. Computers are quite clever these days.

[Mozz71]

I'm sure there are failsafes in place to protect against this happening.

[sanmac]

Naomi, does everyone in the UK has an NHS number?

[Rosetta]

the idea of universal suffrage is that it is one person= one vote, no exceptions. The system needs to reflect this, no exception

[naomi24]

If they’re eligible to vote I imagine they would have, sanmac. Why wouldn’t they?

[sanmac]

I don't live in the UK so that's why I was curious.

[naomi24]

Where are you, sanmac?

[douglas9401]

Chatty student says something, somebody believes it but nothing actually happens because most students still sleep it off until polls close at 22:00 but it makes good chat at yoooni over a pint of snakebite.

[Rosetta]

Just because they can doesnt mean they should. The system should be that they can only vote once, otherwise elections can be totally squed by having multiple votes

[sanmac]

I live about 50 miles NW of Toronto.

[THECORBYLOON]

Commonwealth citizens can register to vote in General Elections if they are resident here but they may not have an NHS Number.

[emmie]

Naomi's point is a good one, they must have a NHS number or some other proof. It is against the law to vote twice..

[bednobs]

its always been easy to cheat in the GE if you wanted to. My first GE i was living away from home and the person who had previously inhabited my room had a carc delivered. I hadnt registered to vote in the new place, so i took a punt that this person had moved far enough away and voted in their name

[naomi24]

sanmac, I know the area a bit. We have friends further north.

[davebro]

"It has to be one person one vote."

What about the peaceful ones where the head man tells them how to vote - One person fifty votes?