I changed my Driving Licence from the paper one to the photo card one a few years after the Twin Towers in America were blown up by terrorists. It seemed to change a few things after that. The banks were concerned about money laundering and security. It was becoming difficult to open a bank account if you didn’t have a passport, which I didn’t at the time, or the photo card driving license. Now everything seems to be checked electronically.
At the time I remember thinking it wasn’t a bad idea when Tony Blair wanted to bring in identity cards, I thought it would solve the problem. I wonder why Blair scrapped the idea?
I have known people in the past, before postal voting was allowed, use someone else’s voting card because they were unable to go to the polling station to vote for them. Photo identification would stop that. I can’t say I’m against the idea of having to take a photo ID to the polling station.