I refuse to ask voters for ID, so I’ve quit polling station work after 40 years

Photo identification will be required at all polling stations in the upcoming local elections on 4 May. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

I have worked for my local authority for more than 40 years as polling station staff, but I refuse to ask voters for identity documents and so I have declined the appointment for the forthcoming local elections and future ones (Voter ID will disenfranchise poor and marginalised people. Our best defence? Talk about it, 18 April).

In all the elections I have worked at, I have never seen any attempts at voter fraud. We have proudly ensured that voters’ experience was a positive and welcoming one, and that they felt it was worth turning out to vote.