Electoral administrators are right to warn about the potential chaos of rushing in requirements for voters to take photo ID to polling stations from next May (Report, 3 November).
A simple solution to prevent such chaos, and save the potential £180m that the government estimates the scheme could cost, was presented to the House of Lords last April. The official poll card should have been allowed as one of the forms of identity. Stolen poll cards could be reported and replaced, and those using the original cards would run a high risk of being apprehended.
