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[–]aivinda 84 ポイント85 ポイント

In Europe, you cannot vote without showing your ID. In most places it gets stamped as well, to show that you have voted. It stops you from voting multiple times. It's also essential to get a proof of ID - and any reason against it, is just useless. Yes, you pay for it, but you know that it is the person that you're dealing with, and not someone random.

[–]NeoxideReagan Conservative 72 ポイント73 ポイント

But they don't have blacks in Europe and everyone knows it's racist to make Blacks show voter ID

[–]vagijn 6 ポイント7 ポイント

We have a lot of ethnic groups in The Netherlands. In some cities Caucasian people are a minority. Anyway, every voter needs to show a passport, drivers license or ID card.

[–]co_radioConstitutionalist Conservative 1 ポイント2 ポイント

show me ONE continental European city (besides Istanbul) where whites are a minority.

[–]Rommel79Conservative 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Leichester, Luton, Slough. That's just in the UK and it's the first link on Google.

[–]co_radioConstitutionalist Conservative 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Apparently continental slipped passed you...

[–]timtom45 1 ポイント2 ポイント

There aren't any african americans in europe?

[–]smokeybehr 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Your sarcasm meter needs some recalibration.

[–]aivinda 0 ポイント1 ポイント

They have many non-whites in Europe - especially from Middle-Eastern and South-Asian countries. They don't get to vote, unless they are citizens of the country in which they reside, or local elections.

[–]vagijn 6 ポイント7 ポイント

Europe is big, there are some differences. In The Netherlands you get a voting pass mailed to your home address, you take that to the voting location (often a school or community centre nearby) and additionally have to show a passport / ID card / drivers licence before being allowed to vote.

[–]DrPal 10 ポイント11 ポイント

You can vote in the UK without ID, a couple times I've just turned up with nothing to prove who I am.

[–]lakkkens 2 ポイント3 ポイント

How? Makes no sense, how did they confirm your identity?

[–]Leandover 5 ポイント6 ポイント

They don't seem to care.

You just go up and say 'I'm John Doe, from 1 High Street', and they just tick you off their list. You could impersonate another voter with no trouble, though obviously if the real voter showed up later it would be noticed.

We do have a voter fraud problem in areas with large populations from South Asia actually. Which is kinda ironic given this post. It's basically unheard of in white areas though. Although the fraud areas I think tend to be Pakistani/Bangladeshi-dominated, rather than Indian.

They are talking about introducing an ID requirement. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Britain-guards-against-South-Asian-voting-fraud/articleshow/28570956.cms

[–]DrPal 0 ポイント1 ポイント

Every time I vote I often have the same thought about how it would be way too easy to impersonate someone else whose name and address I knew. I'm not saying I would, just that it would be really easy to do.

[–]chalbersma 0 ポイント1 ポイント

You just go up and say 'I'm John Doe, from 1 High Street', and they just tick you off their list. You could impersonate another voter with no trouble, though obviously if the real voter showed up later it would be noticed.

Small town guy here that's similar to how I voted last time except I walked in and they were like "Oh hey Redditor! How's you're day going!"

[–]DrPal 2 ポイント3 ポイント

I tell them my name and address, which they check against their list. Then I vote.

Also worth mentioning is that about a month before the vote you get sent a polling card, but you don't have to take this to the polling station.

[–]LizLilyLyla 0 ポイント1 ポイント

I've never taken id to vote in the UK and I've done it too many times to count. They just check your address of a list and take your polling card.

[–]NearPupCentrist 0 ポイント1 ポイント

In Canada nationally you need ID to vote but for some provincial elections you basically just need to state your name. I voted a couple of days early in the last New Brunswick provincial elections and they didn't even cross my name off the list, let alone ask me for ID. Good old British honour system. But then again Irving and McCain run my little province so it's not like there is a point in rigging the elections.