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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Hundreds of thousands face exclusion over voter ID laws, UK watchdog says

A voter carrying a passport at a polling place in 2018
A voter carrying a passport at a polling place in 2018. This May’s local elections in England were the first mass use of voter ID in the UK outside Northern Ireland. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Hundreds of thousands of people could be excluded from voting in a UK general election because of voter ID laws, the government’s election watchdog has said.

The laws could have a disproportionate effect on poorer people, those with disabilities and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, the Electoral Commission warned.

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