Context
David Davis questions the effectiveness of voter ID in addressing the main types of electoral fraud.
Question
The Minister will be unsurprised to hear that I am unimpressed by this illiberal idea. The Electoral Commission says that three quarters of electoral fraud relates to proxy voting, postal voting, bribery, undue influence or tampering with ballot papers, on which voter ID has no effect, so what are we doing about that?
Answer from Chloe Smith (Minister for Constitution)
As I mentioned, we are looking at a range of measures, including ways to improve the security of postal and proxy voting. It is important to recognise that electoral fraud in any form is a crime, which is why we should stand by measures to deal with it. We should be on the side of the victims of that crime, whose voices are taken away—indeed, stolen—by such fraud.
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