Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

For those of you who are patiently holding on whilst we had our technical difficulties with the stream, thank you for doing so.

This is our ill-fated. It would

seem electoral reform photo ID special, which we tried to do a couple of times before and

we're almost overwhelmed by technical issues this evening. But Simon has bravely battled through

and we're good to go. Are we not Simon?

Well, we are now. We've just lost the original link. So people will only be getting this

notification if they follow us in our various social media locations. So my apologies if

those who wanted to watch the show aren't going to make it.

But yeah, we are going out.

And indeed, I can see that we do have an audience.

So let's crack on, shall we?

My apologies, everybody, while we frantically pulled our hair out or at least I did um yes indeed so

let's let's dive into the meet of so photo ID what's changing how is how will this election be

different to those of elections gone by so um? So, get a sense of deja vu.

So in this election, if you want to vote in person at a polling station,

you're going to need to take some form of voter identification with you.

And about 4% of the UK population don't have the sort of photo ID that's going to be required

but we will cover later on in the show how you can fall free get hold of some photo ID so that you are able to vote

or indeed make sure that you've got the link to register to vote to vote so register to vote on by post so that you get basically a postal

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