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10 Issue 62 • March 2023

ELECTIONS

Have you got your photo

ID for May’s elections?

For the first time, residents will
need to show photographic

identification (ID) to vote at a
polling station in May’s Worcester
City Council elections. Voters are

being urged to make sure they
have the right form of ID.

A wide range of photo ID Anyone who does not have
will be accepted, which one of the accepted forms
most people will already of ID can apply now for
have, including a passport, free ID, either online or by
a driving licence, an completing a paper form.
immigration document
and some travel passes, FREE ID
including an older person’s The full list of accepted
bus pass. ID is available on the
Electoral Commission’s
Voters will be able to use website, along with details elections this May must ELECTION DAY: 4 MAY
expired ID if they are still of how to apply for the also be registered to Elections will be held
recognisable from the photo. free ID. vote. It only takes five on Thursday 4 May for
minutes to register online 11 of the 35 councillors
Photocopies or digital Go to www.electoral at www.gov.uk/register- on Worcester City
forms of ID cannot be commission.org.uk/voterID to-vote. Voters wishing to Council.
used. You can only use a apply for free ID should
workplace or student ID Anyone who wants to first make sure they are Polls will take place in
which is PASS-accredited. have their say in the registered to vote. these wards:
• Arboretum
No photo ID – here’s what to do KEY DATES • Bedwardine
17 April (11.59pm): • Cathedral
If you don’t have any photo ID, you can get a free Deadline to register to • Claines
ID known as a Voter Authority Certificate. All you vote, at www.gov.uk/ • Nunnery
need is a recent, digital photo of yourself and your register-to-vote • St Clement
National Insurance number. 18 April (5pm): Deadline • St John
to apply for a postal • St Peter’s
If you do not have your National Insurance number vote, at www.worcester. • St Stephen
you’ll need other documents to prove your identity, gov.uk/elections • Warndon Parish
for example a birth certificate, bank statement and 25 April (5pm): Deadline North
utility bill. to apply for a proxy • Warndon Parish
vote, at www.worcester. South
Apply now – the deadline is 25 April. gov.uk/elections
25 April (5pm): Deadline There are no elections
www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-to-vote to apply for a Voter this year in the
Authority Certificate Battenhall, Gorse
Request a paper application form (free voter ID) at www. Hill, Rainbow Hill or
✆ 01905 722530 gov.uk/apply-for-photo- Warndon wards.
@ electoralservices@worcester.gov.uk id-to-vote
 In person: visit the Guildhall in High Street, and 4 May: Elections for www.worcester.gov.
ask the customer services team for assistance. Worcester City Council uk/elections

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