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Will new UK voter ID rules make it harder to vote? – BBC News
People will need to show photo ID before being allowed to vote in England’s local elections on 4 May, and at any future UK general election.
The government says the new rules will help prevent voter fraud but critics claim the changes will make it harder for some to vote.
Ros Atkins explains.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
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@jamescrosby3431
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Voting is pointless. No matter who gets in they will always shaft the public and start squandering money from the slave class aka the tax payer.
@robos431
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
They need to change the rules on non uk nationals on voting. The fact that a person like me has been living in the uk since the age of 4 (now 38), attended all the schools, pay taxes and have a family and still cannot vote, is a joke.
@adrianosler1682
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
It wont make it hard for me not interested
@lobbyskids2
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
So the bbc is just a sock puppet for the labour party now. Labour are shitting themselves they will lose the votes of all the illegals staying in the country.
@goodtobecaring4035
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Not much information being sent out on this to citizens
@Ephebo-ds9nq
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
i dont drive and not likely to travel. i have autism. so im not voting . thanks for the prejudice
@ScoopDogg
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Good, we need i.d for everything else unless we come here illegal, it should be people born here get to vote only and those who work at that have voter rights.
@billybunter5575
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
wy do you think the tories introduced photo id in the first place because they knew they where going to be beat in the general election i think people now relise that the torie party is a party for the rich.
@groovydonkey
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
I have voted for years and never had to show my passport. When the elections come up next year, if this ne rule is still in place, I will not vote. I have never had to do it in the past and I'm going to start now.
@grezjoseph6257
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
To those moaners. Get of your FAT BACKSIDE and get the right voter ID. Easy unless that's to simple for you. Maybe if you are the simple you should not be voting anyway.
@StephenLydiate
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Well my voter ID didn't turn up in time, so i couldn't cast my vote…. WTF, add me to the hundreds of thoudsands who also didnt get the in time, joke being the concervatives knew prior to it that they couldnt get them sent out in time for the votes, the shadow home secretary called for a delay in the need for ID to vote given this.
Plus voter ID does nothing to stop fraud, given that in person voting has almost no voter fraud, whereas mail votes has got some, but the vast majority of electoral fraud is actually done during campaigns by the candidates, usually the concervative ones who blatantly lie posing it as fact and take back handers constantly, in 2019 they where banned from facebook for this, it was that bad yes that even facebook banned them.
@scdbpc965
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Have a question. How do people in UK open a bank account, apply for divers licence, job if they don't have ID/passport? I truly don't understand why people are complaining about having to produce ID when voting. It is common sense, to prevent voting fraud! I am baffled that this is even an issue. How do you claim benefits if you don't have ID? I truly don't understand the issue
@wanderingfool6312
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Voter suppression for the poor. A move not needed, not asked for and benefits one party, the tories.
@TruthTeller977
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
I just voted today. On top of the voter suppression by the back door with the photo ID requirement, the Tories have a number on the back of your voting slip tied to your name & address on their lists so your vote is NOT confidential. They say it's nationwide. I hope they get voted out.
@gtube2306
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Since the 2nd world war governments have tried to introduce compulsory ID on every citizen. This is another backdoor attempt by threatening our democratic right to vote, and once sufficient numbers have the right ID they will make it compulsory, and without ID you will get nothing, your travel will even be stopped. If they wish they will know your every movement, what you bought yesterday, where and what time. This is a determined attempt to gain more control of everyone. Just like the Nazis in the 30's. The thin end of the wedge, with 15 minute cities, restricted crossings, digital money. They are after total control of the population
@holydiver73
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
I don’t have a passport, I don’t have a drivers Licence. However, what I do have is a Voters Authority Certificate that is valid at elections, is free to apply for and it took me five minutes to do so online. It was approved the following day and I got the certificate in the post the day after that. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. Now tell me, how are voters being suppressed? It’s not like this is something that has just dropped. It has been advertised and publicised for MONTHS in advance. Voting patterns show that young people on the whole are apathetic to the voting process anyway. If people are too lazy to spend 5 minutes applying for a voting authority certificate, then this is on THEM. I seriously worry about the motives of people who want to moan about a process that makes our elections a lot more secure. It’s not voter suppression, it’s cheating suppression. How on earth is this a bad thing?
@user-yf6pc8fm7b
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Conservatives r corrupt we gonna get rid of u today
@fernbracken
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
dont forget the 2 main parties have nothing in their manifesto to stop the migrants coming
only REform and Britian first are the genuine non racist parties
@reemie786
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
There was no problem with voting the tarries just want to make it harder for young people to vote.
@sadiexoxo275
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
i’m 35 and I don’t know anyone without a provisional or actual drivers license or passport, if you can’t be bothered then your vote won’t count, you can dig out a passport for your summer holiday but not to vote? this is basic
@henryprzepiorka
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
BBC supports voter fraud by Muslim Labour supporters
@stigmontgomery7901
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
2 million people don't have the right ID to vote? Then I suggest they go out and get some asap!
@clarence_claymore.
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Go on bbc try making the weird lefty argument that voter id is racist like they do in America because they think black people are inept and can’t get an id, this will mean your beloved illegal immigrants can’t vote tho
@s.e5195
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
You do realise that there has been next to no cases of voter fraud this is a deliberate attempt to try and dissuade disadvantaged groups from voting its the conservatives trying to stay in power
@ericastones1052
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
I am never voting anymore because they broke the law during lockdown and insulted the Magna Charta which state no one is above the law.
@arcadealchemist
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Vote ID proving you are who you say you are.
when this country has around 90 million people but only 66 are known about
@michaeldent1684
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
It will stop the islamic state running the country
@johnheppell402
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
A late but most sensible move. Next we must remove the opportunity for voter harvesting by stopping voting by post except in cases of Government Service overseas. It is essential that individuals get to vote without pressure from community leaders or family member bullying.
@thl205
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Tories cancelled the ID card scheme. The ones people applied for voluntarily were made useless. For all their “priorities” on immigration, benefits, NHS not being used by visitors, voter ID, they need some kind of national ID card that isn’t your driver’s license. They made this mess then get votes selling outrage about how we can’t verify people’s identity or their entitlement to the welfare state.
@DarylBaines
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Voting should be mandatory.
@omicSheep
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Common sense to have ID with you when you vote .. wtf…… Wtf……
@omicSheep
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
I don't understand UK's nonsense joke of voting system…….
@MaHa-vm6up
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
The vast majority of voter fraud is Labour and Pakistani/Islamic. This is why Labour gave the go ahead for everyone to have the right to vote by post, no questions asked because they knew it would benefit them and help their attack and hatred of the whyte working class people.
@conconmc
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, voter fraud isn't an issue. A big issue is voter suppression and low voter turn out. Holding elections on weekdays (they should be on weekends), asking for ID etc will just reduce the amount of people involved in the democratic process which is worse for everyone.
@whiskysam2036
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
I haven't voted since 2010 and i don't have a photo ID
@jeromebano1125
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
I think voter ID is a good idea for me I don’t mind as it is compulsory in Europe
@howardneil8164
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Everyone should have a National insurance card , to be used when accessing the health service and can also be used for voter I’d and other things . It’s crazy that anyone can vote in Uk without any ID .
@howardneil8164
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
It should be harder for people to vote if they have no right to vote , the Left are nuts as usual, they support Lefty students voting twice for example
@stanthemafia
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
It’s fair
@fiazrehman5457
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Every thing is family, children as a signature in this visitor book world which I don’t have that is no one is allowing me to leave my signature in this visitor book world . Although I was and am a pretty fertile man ?.
Oh God make fruitful of my patience . Ameen
@annabanna8852
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Hey BBC, I’m getting the impression from the comments section, that people don’t like little liars!
@annabanna8852
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
What type of elections are we having ? I haven’t a clue what goes on in my country anymore, as the media corporations, like the BBC, are such lying scumbags,that I have no alternative but to switch the little story tellers off!
@chrism2121
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Bah this reporter is so bias in the way he uses his tone of voice and pauses… clearly a tory
@Paulo-ov4yo
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
Not bothered, not voting for any of the idiots
@vjab1108
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
It is the Postal Votes that need looking in to.
@lewis571
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
"Will new UK voter ID rules make it harder to vote" Stupidest title ever
@dinoworld112
January 14, 2024 at 2:55 pm
It's good because no random people visiting your country can just walk in and take a vote