Don't lose your vote 🗳️

PSA for anyone who may now find themselves without the photo ID that you were intending to use as #voterID that you still have time to apply for

- a voter authority certificate, https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate
- a postal vote, https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote
- a proxy vote, https://www.gov.uk/apply-proxy-vote

and that there are certain emergency circumstances in which you can apply for an emergency proxy vote, https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/ways-vote/emergency-proxy-vote

Apply for photo ID to vote (called a ‘Voter Authority Certificate’)

Apply for photo ID to vote (Voter Authority Certificate) in some elections and referendums in Great Britain if you do not have an accepted form of ID.

GOV.UK
A high profile example of someone who was granted an emergency proxy vote in the English local elections was former Tory MP Tom Hunt, who tried to imply that the rest of us dyspraxics were being very mean to him when we pointed out that the leopards were in fact eating his face.