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The Importance of Voter ID in Local Elections

Northern Ireland is going to the polls this Thursday. There's a total of 462 seats up for grabs in all of Northern Ireland's 11 councils. Parties that try and gerrymandre end up finding that their clever scheme comes back to bite them. As dare I say, we found by insisting on voting ID for elections. And we found that people who didn't have ID were elderly, oh, and they by and large voted conservative. So, we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well was rather the glories of our country,. That was one of the few lucid things that was said at the NatCon conference.

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