Very hard to defraud if you are in, purely for example, Russia.
But think about it logically, if voter ID is not required than it is easier to fraudulently vote. That seems logical to me. Do you have counter argument?
You can't just turn up at any polling station and say "give me a ballot paper", you turn up at the right polling station for your address and tell them your name and address.
They cross you off the list and if the same person tries to vote again, the voter is challenged, and a special (tendered) ballot paper is issued (which isn't counted in the vote). If a ward returns a significant number of tendered papers, then the returning officer can take action.
Polling places are small, and serve no more than 2500 voters.
So. In order for an individual to vote fraudulently, they must pretend to be an actual voter, they must know the name and address of the voter(s) they are pretending to be, they must do it early in the day, and they can't just keep going into the same polling station over and over, pretending to be someone new, otherwise they are likely to be recognised.
In order for a group to do this at a scale that matters, they must also be pretty sure that most of the real voters aren't actually going to turn up to vote.
Given all that, it is probably easier to engage in intimidation and/or bribery of actual voters, than to fraudulently complete ballot papers yourself. Voter ID doesn't protect against that.
If it is true or not I don't know, but is a real concern if so.
Can you please walk me through a scenario for how someone could commit voting fraud in a way that would be stopped by a voter ID? The only one I can think of is saying you are someone else in your community, like your neighbor... but they are going to find that out right away when your actual neighbor goes to try to vote and finds out someone else has already voted in their name.
How would you commit your fraud?
