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Polling stations across England are drafting in extra staff to help deal with the introduction of mandatory photographic voter ID at next month’s local elections.

The Week

May local elections: New voter ID system explained

New law means voters must show photo ID to cast their ballots in local elections

The Independent UK

Voters to decide on possible changes to citizen-initiative process

Welcome to the Tuesday, April 18, Brew.

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Editorial: Yet another scheme to make it harder to vote in Florida

Here we go again. Like the dogwoods that bloom every spring in Tallahassee, the Legislature’s annual obsession with making it harder to vote has returned — just as we all knew it would.

Tribune News Service

Voter ID will disenfranchise poor and marginalised people. Our best defence? Talk about it

If ministers won’t spread the word, we should do so ourselves, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

May local elections: South Gloucestershire Council dates and candidates list in full

This is the first time voters will need to bring formal ID to polling stations

Bristol Post

‘Fox News is in big trouble’: Trump’s warning to Murdoch

Donald Trump has urged Rupert Murdoch to embrace his false allegations of voter fraud if the media mogul testifies in the Fox News trial.

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Ohio murder rates far higher than NYC as state’s GOP Rep. Jim Jordan slams city’s crime woes

Tribune News Service

‘Use it or lose it’ bill that could strip inactive Texas voters’ registration advances

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate approved a “use it or lose it” voter bill Monday that could purge voters from registration rolls who skip two federal elections.

Tribune News Service

Elections boss admits still 'unanswered questions' on Voter ID as fears of chaos at polls

Peter Stanyon, who is chief executive of the association of electoral administrators, admitted the upcoming local elections are unlikely to be delivered to the standard 'that everybody would want to achieve'

Daily Mirror

The race to be the next mayor of Philadelphia

Welcome to the Monday, April 17, Brew.

Ballotpedia

Voter registrations rise as deadline arrives for local elections

Some 26,567 applications were made on April 14, the highest for a single day so far this year.

The Independent UK

The GOP is making it harder for college students to vote

Republican lawmakers are making it harder for students to cast ballots where they attend school, after the GOP suffered stinging recent electoral losses largely because of an historic surge in turnout from younger voters backing Democrats.

Tribune News Service

Labour should be selling itself instead of attacking Rishi Sunak and his wife

Voters need to hear bold promises from the opposition rather than allegations and immature controversialism

The Guardian - UK

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Manchester Evening News

Local elections 2023 in Greater Manchester: Date, candidates, photo ID rules and how to vote

For the first time ever voters will need photo identification in order to cast their ballot

Wales Online

Council boss makes rap video to remind voters about new photo ID rules

He rapped as 'T-Dawg' for the reminder to voters to take photo ID to the polling station for May's elections

The Conversation

Voter ID: analysis shows Conservative MPs offering weak justification for law which is now in force

The UK government has changed the law so that people in England will have to show ID when they go to vote. This controversial new rule was brought in on the insistence that the “integrity of elections” needs to be protected. But it has the potential to prevent many people…

Daily Mirror

Council official 'T-Dawg' records wacky rap video to warn about new Voter ID rules

Trevor Holden of Broadland and South Norfolk councils bounces in the crab position and waves his hands around while wearing a bucket hat during the 56-second clip

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Evening Standard

What are the voting requirements in the UK?

The change comes in addition to a new voting age of 16 years old.

The Independent UK

Council official ‘T-Dawg’ makes rap video in photo ID reminder for voters

The Government’s new policy means people must take a form of ID such as a passport or driving licence when they go to vote.

The Independent UK

Extra staff drafted in to handle new voter ID rules on polling day

The Electoral Commission said there has been a huge training drive in order to prevent queues at polling stations.

Wales Online

Extra staff brought in amid worries over new voter ID rules for upcoming elections

Voters will have to show photo ID for the first time

Daily Mirror

'Pressing need' for local elections review amid fears photo ID will stop people voting

The Tories are accused of trying to rig next month's May local elections by introducing new Voter ID requirements that will disproportionately hit younger people

The Guardian - UK

English polling stations to bring in extra staff as voter ID changes begin

Electoral Commission says ‘greeters’ will help ensure people are aware of rule and have photo ID ready on 4 May

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s youngest voters are ‘the future’ — so why don’t more of them vote?

Chicago’s youngest voting bloc — 18-to-24-year-olds — has the lowest turnout relative to size, though nearly a third more cast ballots in the April runoff than in the first round of mayoral voting in February.

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