Johnson’s voter ID checks are not about electoral fraud, they’re about power | Simon Jenkins

Britain’s elections have a clean bill of health, and yet the government is wilfully hindering people’s right to vote

The government’s voter identity scheme should be abandoned. It is unnecessary, inconvenient and a disincentive to vote. More serious, voter cards for those without a current form of photo ID would be another step, however modest, towards the regulation and surveillance of daily life, an obsession of governments worldwide since the digital revolution.

A classic test of state liberali...