Photo ID will be required to be able to vote in person at a General Election for the first time on Thursday 4th July and Islanders are being reminded that if they do not have a valid document such as a passport or driving license, they have only a few days to apply for a free photo ID. The closing date to apply is 17:00 on Wednesday 26th June and information about which documents are accepted at polling stations and how to apply for the free ID can be found at https://www.iow.gov.uk/council-and-councillors/elections/electoral-registration/photographic-voter-id/. Anyone applying for a free photo ID should make sure they have a clear head and shoulders photograph with a plain background. Meanwhile, postal voters are now receiving their ballots and the council is urging people to return them as quickly as possible. Most postal votes are returned via Royal Mail, but they can also be handed in at County Hall during office hours or to any polling station on election day. However, rules on who can handle postal votes have now changed. • Voters will be only able to hand in their own postal vote, and the postal votes of up to 5 other people, at a polling station (or County Hall). • Campaigners can only hand in their own postal vote, and postal votes for up to 5 other people that are either close relatives, or someone they provide regular care for. • All individuals handing in postal votes to local authority offices or polling stations will need to complete a postal vote return form. There are more than 20,000 postal voters on the Isle of Wight, around 2,500 applying since the General Election was announced. There is a total electorate of about 112,000 voters across the 2 new Parliamentary Constituencies.
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So we have a few choices
Stick we what we have Tories
Vote for change your mind party Labour
Vote for Post Office scandal led Liberals
Or DEFORM UK (the Numpty’s will be voting for this one)
I won’t be voting for two reasons. Firstly, I object to being dictated to that I have to have ID, when it is my right to vote anon, and secondly, there is no one to vote for that is fit for purpose who will be in there for the benefit of the working famillies. All it will be for,is the rich, a load of parranoid save the planet supporters or building thousands more free homes for the immigrants and the free loading mainland chavs
I too will not be voting. the Plandemic has shown me and my family
what a load of hypocrites politicians are.
The Island will always be Tory.
Only persons living in social housing will be voting
Reform or Labour
If you want safer roads and safer futures for your children
and their children, Labour is the answer.
They have made roads safer in Wales and London