Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "‘Significant concerns’ over plans to introduce voter ID to UK elections" video.

Paying taxes has nothing to do with voting eligibility. UK citizens over 18 have a right to vote. Immigrants not from eligible Commonwealth countries whom also are not citizens have no right to vote. They do rightly pay taxes however. The accepted IDs are exceptionally broad. For the 1.5% of eligible UK citizens whom can vote but don't have an accepted photo ID, they can get a free voter card for FREE from their local council. The only people whom are preventing from voting are people attempting to do so through impersonation or fraud.
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You are both a man, and a number. However neither of those facts are relevant to voter ID. The entire point of the legislation is for you to demonstrate which man you are and that said man is therefore eligible to vote. I'm not entirely sure why it hadn't come about earlier. There is no exclusion here for anyone eligible to vote. All such persons will continue to be able to vote unhindered. It is important to note that the list of accepted IDs is quite broad and includes EXPIRED IDs so long as the photo is still a good likeness of you. If you are one of the 1.5% of eligible voters in the UK whom does not have a accepted photo ID you are eligible to receive a Free Voter Card photo ID without any charge, as in for FREE from your local council whom are legislated by law to mandatorily provide such a service. The cabinet office is paying for these. So if you have any concern whatsoever about whether your ID is valid just head over to the local council and get yourself a free voter card then you know for sure you aren't going to have a problem. This legislation prevents people from double voting, voting on behalf of others and further ensures the integrity of election results by preventing election fraud.
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What you're missing is they haven't experienced it so their imaginations are the only context, and many people allow their imaginations to runaway with them then treat their imagination as if it's fact. You can not reason with them
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@ljt3084 It's not impossible at all. Your lack of imagination towards the obvious doesn't change reality.
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@squirrel9999 No one eligible to vote is unable to get an ID. The are doing "free voter cards" at no cost to the end user as a mandatory obligation of every council. Expired IDs where the photo is still a good likeness of you are also accepted. Everyone who is eligible to vote, can still vote.
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@nothereandthereanywhere You don't wait until you can prove someone is coming into your house and robing it before you start locking the door.
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@django3422 Nope. I want to make sure it never becomes an issue in the first place because by the time it becomes an issue it's already too late and the kinds of government who get in by voter fraud aren't the kinds of government to prevent it in the future.
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@django3422 Genuine question, and please don't take this the wrong way, but do you have some kind of cognitive impairment or developmental disorder? I only ask because your comment is so very, shall we say intellectually challenged, but I don't want to cause offence should it be the case that you have a condition that explains your paranoia and inability to make valid, coherent arguments.
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Oh no @django3422 that's not at all what I was saying at all. On the contrary, I was pointing out the invalid nature of the fallacy ridden excuse for a previous reply, whilst double checking there's no condition that explains your intellectual inadequacy before I ridicule you for it. Is it safe to assume you have no such condition? I genuinely have no desire to ridicule a retard if that's indeed what you are, but your previous argument was so poorly constructed that I feel embarrassed for your level of stupidity. Imagine arguing against a security measure which improves the integrity of elections and suffers no downsides. By your fallacy of thought we should wait to have concrete evidence of someone breaking into your home and squatting before installing a lock. According to your argument we should wait until there's a fatal car accident before fixing a pothole or installing a round about to slow vehicles down. And even though we show photo ID in daily life for other tasks, and despite 98.5% of eligible UK citizens holding an accepted photo ID you want to make the baseless argument that it will somehow exclude some people from voting. Everyone eligible to vote is eligible for a free voter card and they don't cost a thing and expired IDs are accepted. Based on that argument should we remove the photo ID requirement from entry to clubs and the purchasing of alcohol? Should we remove the right for police to ask for ID? What a joke you've made of yourself. Where a loophole in electoral integrity exists it should be closed, just as we close other loopholes in the public good before they result in tragedy. That gives voters more confidence so losing parties can't claim rigged elections and by the time you discover a serious problem with electoral fraud it's too late and there's no way back. The integrity of elections is a cornerstone of democracy and peaceful society, strengthening it is never a bad thing. The electoral commission isn't against the idea in principle, indeed the opposite they fully support it and have advocated for it. Their only concern is over the timing of implementation because they fear their processes and logistics may not allow them to fulfil the requirements in time. Implementation of such a system for the first time is a massive undertaking, I imagine there will be some very late nights at the electoral commission. Seriously, unless you have a meaningful, tangible reply, don't bother.
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@django3422 You can try to improve road surfacing so potholes never appear in the first place, and indeed that's an entire field of civil engineering. Your argument is stupid. Oh no, please don't make things better... You have nothing of substance to say. Go away.
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@django3422 Your argument remains a non-sequitur. The stupidity of your argument has nothing whatsoever to do with any examples of other like-minded things people or government are proactive to I have utilised Your argument was stupid before I even got here. It's emotionally driven, contrarian nonsense that fails to consider reality and instead wants to pursue an imported, faulty, ideological position. You continue to have no valid argument. All election systems have voter controls, that's how the integrity of an election is maintained. I'm done wasting my time on you.
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@django3422 Your argument was a non-sequitur before I got here. Your response makes me wonder if you actually understand what a non-sequitur is. It has nothing to do with me. Here's the definition, it may help. non sequitur noun 1: an inference (see INFERENCE sense 1) that does not follow from the premises (see PREMISE entry 1 sense 1) specifically : a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative (see AFFIRMATIVE entry 1 sense 3) proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent (see CONSEQUENT entry 1 sense 1) In Latin, non sequitur means "it does not follow." The phrase was borrowed into English in the 1500s by people who made a formal study of logic. For them, it meant a conclusion that does not follow from the statements that lead to it. Example: A + C = X, My dog is blind, therefore all dogs are blind. Ie. You are drawing illogical conclusions from things that simply do not support such conclusions. Non-sequitur is not by far the only fallacy in your argument. However it is the most important because it renders your argument invalid before it starts. Thus the remaining fallacies become somewhat irrelevant. It must be said however, that many of the statements you make that you rest conclusions upon where themselves false to begin with. Stop parroting ideologies you've read or hear from a biased media source and try actually using your brain. But, do it with someone else because I've had enough of your nonsense.
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@django3422 Go back, try to comprehend the definition of non-sequitur and it will become clear to you.
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@django3422 lol oh my, what a deluded "I know you are but what am I"... grow up buddy.
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Why was there footage from yankville in this report?
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