Boris Johnson couldn't cast vote without photo ID, due to his own election integrity law

[marmar]

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who passed a controversial law requiring a photo ID to vote, was turned away from a South Oxfordshire polling place Thursday for leaving his at home.

The former Conservative Prime Minister couldn’t cast a ballot for the district’s police and crime commissioner as polling place staff were legally mandated to deny him, AP News reports.

Johnson, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022, pushed the 2022 Elections Act through the Conservative-led parliament. Thursday was the first election in which the bill governed vote-casting, two years after fielding criticism from the U.K.’s Electoral Commission and advocates for the potentially discriminatory effects of such a scheme. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/04/boris-johnson-couldnt-cast-vote-without-photo-id-due-to-his-own-integrity-law/?in_brief=true

[Deep State Witch]

1. That Was Karma

Coming to bite him in the ass!

[Qutzupalotl]

2. And he's a recognizable public figure.

Now consider how similar laws here affect ordinary people.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. The law works!

It keeps undesirables from voting!

Well, one of them, anyway.