Elections: Voter ID Debate
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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Elections: Voter ID
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Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)
My Lords, it is the turn of the Liberal Democrats.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)
My Lords, we already have a problem with fewer young people turning out to vote than others. The clear implication of what Jacob Rees-Mogg said was that this was intended to discourage more young people from voting, but it ended up discouraging some older people from voting as well. Would not one of the easiest things be to expand the number of possible means of identification that young people could present when voting, and make it clear that that is being relaxed?
Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)
We will look at the evidence of that. We have said we that we will look at other forms of identification when we have the evidence to do so; that is what the Government will do.