New UK Election Law to Ban Postal Vote Harvesting

New UK Election Law to Ban Postal Vote Harvesting
Staff open a ballot box to count for the local elections at the count centre at Olympia London in west London on May 7, 2021. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images
|Updated:

The UK government said on Friday it plans to boost election integrity by stopping postal vote harvesting, limiting proxy voting, and clamping down on voter intimidation.

This follows the announcement earlier this week that voters will be required to show photographic ID before being issued ballots at a polling station.