Boris Johnson couldn't cast vote without photo ID, due to his own election integrity law
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 couldnt cast a ballot for the districts 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)
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