Another round of elections, another "piloting" of Jim Crow voter identification. Yet electoral fraud is vanishingly rare in Britain, if it exists at all here.
Across all elections held in 2015, when there seats up today were last up and when there was a General Election on the same day, there were 51.4 million votes cast.
There were only 26 allegations of in-person electoral fraud. Twenty-six. And there were no convictions. Not one.
Yet we became a different country on 3rd May last year, as people were denied their right to vote because they had failed to present their State papers. Guess which people.
Next up, naturally from The Guardian, we have already had a call for a variation on the literacy tests that the Southern United States used to employ in order to prevent blacks from voting.
What next? The Jim Crow Poll Tax?
Nor will it end there. Unless we stop this whole trend, right here and now. The voter ID "experiment" has failed. Far from being extended, it must be discontinued forthwith.
Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.
I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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