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\nNominations for candidates start on 20th March. So you have about a month to decide if you want to stand. I was an independent candidate for the town council 4 years ago but didn’t get in. It was an interesting experience.<\/p>\n
\nNominations for candidates start on 20th March. So you have about a month to decide if you want to stand. I was an independent candidate for the town council 4 years ago but didn’t get in. It was an interesting experience.<\/p>\n
New for 2023 \u2013 you must show a photo ID when voting at a polling station. If people have not got a photo ID, they can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate by 25th April. It can be applied for online and needs a National Insurance Number and a digital photo. See https:\/\/www.electoralcommission.org.uk\/i-am-a\/voter\/voter-id<\/a><\/p>\n The voter ID scheme was agreed upon by parliament last year. According to opendemocracy.net, between 995,000 and 3.5 million people do not have the required ID. It will affect some age groups, ethnic and gender groups more than others. Voter turnout in local elections is low in any case, and this could reduce it further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nominations for candidates start on 20th March. So you have about a month to decide if you want to stand. I was an independent candidate for the town council 4 years ago but didn’t get in. It was an interesting experience. New for 2023 \u2013 you must show a photo ID when voting at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}