the Electoral Reform Society estimated that voter ID would cost us £180m over 10 years.
Some of that is now sunk costs but the savings from abolishing it would still be substantial.
Additional changes to make it work fairly, so that those missing 400,000 could vote will also not come cheap.
Surely the sensible answer is to save public money and just get rid of it now?
https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/why-will-the-governments-voter-id-scheme-cost-us-up-to-180000000-a-decade/
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