Recall Petitions: Voter ID Debate
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Viscount Stansgate
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Recall Petitions: Voter ID
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Monday 10th July 2023
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Viscount Stansgate (Lab)
Can the Minister reassure the House that the Government will take steps to make a record of electors who go to sign their name at a recall petition and are refused for lack of voter identification?
Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)
My Lords, the Government have made it very clear that they will look at all the data from any petition or election, as they did in May this year.