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Originally Posted by jaxie

You say that people would be found out if not registering to vote themselves as checks would be made and their would be other details like they are council tenants or homeowners, registered for energy and a simple check could verify and yet you fail to see the same can be said for postal voting.

With a poking station you flash a card at people, go and vote you could be anyone really except the card comes in the post to you address. A postal vote also comes to your address, your registered address, the one easily checked as being yours and is returned with a verified signature. I fail to see why you consider this less secure.

Do you mean a polling station?

You do not 'flash a card' you are given a polling number this number is on he card and is cross referenced with the registered number they have in the register for your address. You are there in person at your local polling station.

It is less secure as once posted tens of 1000s of votes vanish... it happened regularly last year across the country, I'm surprised nobody chooses to remember this.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10213657.html

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/...eports-9195178

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/exp...ot-papers.html

And again during the referendum...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7103066.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7125711.html