The Politics of Imposition of Photo ID in Elections

These are the first elections where you have to have photo ID in order to vote. An apparently valid ID does include an old person's bus pass, but it doesn't include a young person's rail card. Labour was a little upset by this policy because they said it disadvantages their voters who tend to be younger and often unemployed or don't have ID. But actually I think the truth is that young people are more likely to carry ID on them as they often get carded to get into venues like nightclubs. So why not just move the polling stations from schools to nightclubs? They're empty anyway during the day, and an old person is never going to be let in, especially if