Lootman wrote:ursaminortaur wrote:stevensfo wrote:Lootman wrote:mc2fool wrote:I didn't say anything about anyone being a persona non grata. I simply said that electoral roll registration is a primary factor in electronic ID verification, and not having that almost always requires you do provide paper ID instead, as you have confirmed. You may consider that an OK cost, I understand that. I consider it a p.i.t.a. and am glad not to have had to do so for very many years.
P.S. You may not be a persona non grata, but in not having registered to vote you are, of course, a criminal. I think you knew that already.
Fair enough. Interestingly Paypal signed me up without any ID checks or verification. Perhaps they get away with it because they are not holding or lending funds, but merely acting as a conduit for funds.
Actually I thought that not being on the voting register was a civil infraction rather than criminal, leading to a statutory fine rather than a criminal prosecution. Although giving false information on the form can lead to a prison term. In any case it would appear not to be enforced by my local authority.
I have never heard of anyone being prosecuted for not being on it. Likewise, people who put their name on the electoral register but no longer live there are probably unlikely to have problems unless they actually vote.
It happens though the council will make repeated attempts to contact the person before resorting to taking them to court see this from 2012
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/pair-fined-refusing-sign-up-4200256
A man and woman have become the first people in Wokingham borough to be prosecuted for not filling out and returning their annual canvass forms for the 2011/12 Register of Electors.
“By law, we have to take certain steps to obtain the canvass form from households. If occupiers do not return the initial form they receive by post, we have to send a personal canvasser to call at the property on more than one occasion.
“This incurs cost, which ultimately comes out of council tax.
“If someone does not return their form, then it’s their neighbours that have to share the cost and this, we feel, is not fair.
Ah but that is a bit different. They were refusing to complete and return the form.
In the case I mentioned the form was completed and returned. It was just missing a name.
It would be relatively easy to check that an address had no associated form returned. Much harder to know that a resident of that address had been omitted.
How did you persuade someone to falsely fill out the details on the form, leaving you off it, and get them to sign that form ?