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Originally Posted by joeysteele

How do they know the person asking for the postal vote is the person named on the register.
No signatures are cross checked,if you had to go with id and a signature id too, to qualify for a postal vote fair enough.

What if someone just applies, that lives at the same address, then gets an additional vote for themselves, rather than for the person.

Also who is watching when a person makes a postal vote out,are they voting for who 'they' really want to or what someone else may be 'guiding' or even 'telling' them to do.
Or indeed may they just be signing the form and some other person filling the vote in anyway as to how they have voted.
I agree with arista, postal voting is more open to possible 'interference' from other individuals and may be far from private too.

At a polling station, anyone going there,would not be taking anyone else in to the actual polling booth, or even discussing their voting with anyone else while in the polling station.
With the attendants watching them.
A very big difference.

Anyway while we are heading to leave the EU and it seems no one in govt, or anywhere else, has a clue how to go about that, perhaps across the board at the same time, it could be looked into as to a new voting system for the UK now and some tightening up with photo and signature id required to gain postal votes.

You could say all of that about actually registering to vote. How can you know the people completing the form are who they say they are.