@enkiusz

I have heard that argument but it's just as archaic as an English double water tap — it might make sense 100 years ago, but right now the government already maintains a dozen of databases for citizen data, for driver licenses, passports, national insurance, NHS, DWP etc, plus all the documents mentioned in the voting guidance.

Yet, having no single authoritative id document linking all these results in every citizen forced to perform an utterly absurd and privacy-violating ritual of "fuzzy identity verification" each time they open a bank account, renting a car, an apartment, getting a job etc.

The piles of highly sensitive documents such as your past address history, bank statements etc left at the mercy of each of these *private* companies are specifically to compensation for a single government identity document.

The only pressure group that would be actually hurt by introduction of such id would be all the companies that aggregate this data for their commercial benefit such as Experian etc. Aggregate, and occasionally leak publicly due to poor data protection standards...

#VoterId

@harriettmb @bobjmsn