Recommendation 21

The Committee appreciates that the Government has included a wide range of forms of identification in its list of acceptable identification in the Bill. The purpose of the Government’s proposals to introduce a voter ID requirement are to ensure that the person who turns up at the polling station is the named person on the electoral register. To meet this requirement, all that is needed is an ID that has the person’s name and their photograph. We recommend that any ID issued by a public authority, educational institutions, approved schemes such as PASS ID or a transport providers should be accepted as proof of identification for the purposes of voting at a polling station. To ensure clarity for administrators, the Government should produce a standardised design/guides for public bodies, educational institutions and transport providers to follow on issuing ID such as the inclusion of a PASS ID hologram.