The Electorial Commission should make it illegal for any party to know who has a postal vote.
I have just seen a letter targeted at an OAP which starts 'I understand that you have chosen to vote by post at this election'
Surely this is a private matter and not one for the Labour Party MSP.

Ron, Glasgow,

Let's make it simple. Bring this idea in and I won't vote again.

I've had enough of having to provide ID with banks and everything I do in my business. Enough is enough. Just hope enough people join me and then it will have to be changed back.

Bob Wyper, Kilmarnock, UK

Logically there is no problem with postal voting fraud. Since in this democratic age only the minority get the government they want, does it really matter whether one has the labour government one doesn't want or the conservative government one doesn't want? I suppose it might make a difference if we still had political parties that had political ideals, but since they all play opinion poll politics it really doesn't matter.

Mike Poulsen, Reading,

To all the wingers about the ID cards, isn't that ONE good reason to get a card. So that people don't vote twice.

I don't know how many times I have turned up at a polling booth in the UK without my crappy piece of paper that was posted to me weeks earlier, and just by saying who I was (now what's youre name and addesss my dear) was able to cast my vote

ID cards are so useful I am just amazed as to why the Brits are not queueing up for them

Greg, Istanbul, Turkey

So the proposed National ID card could be used as an identifier at elections

Under the Identity Card Act 2006 the verification of the card against the National Identity Register will be recorded for ever.

The information about whether you voted and at which elections will be available to the govermnent .

You would`nt want to use this card as an ID

Andrew, Swansea, UK

Absolute madness. On the one hand we allow postal voting when it is blatantly clear...and shown to be so ...that it is wide open to corruption and fraud. The number of applications for postal voting has increased enormously. Hasn`t it occurred to the commission why this should be so?
As for ID cards at polling stations.....how can a check be made for those wearing full veils [niqabs] without the veil being removed...... or will it,as I suspect, be taken on trust for fear of causing embarrasment?

vincent, near Huddersfield, England

What about the people who do not have a driving licence passport and will not get one of the stupid id cards discrimination is what i call it. if you dont drive and there are plenty of disabled people who do not then there is a good case in law against this move.

mike, Preston, UK

I don't mind having to prove my identity in order to vote. I value being able to vote and I welcome any security measure to prevent fraud or impersonation. The lax immigration policy of successive governments (none worse than new labour) has resulted in voting fraud on a large scale. I can't understand why it is so easy for these foreigners to vote in this country after being here for such a short time and how Irish people are entitled to vote here is beyond me. Anyway, It's gone too far now and the political parties are in such a state that they are relying to some extent on the immigrant vote - what a disgraceful situation. It does bug me, though, when I go to vote, that my ballot paper is marked with a reference that any one of the interested parties could find out how I voted. This cannot be right. My vote is between the ballot box andme. It is private and no one should be able to see how I voted. The postal voting system is a disgrace and must be tightened up to avoid fraud.

Lynda Plum, London, England

I agree with Samantha. The issue is not with polling stations but with postal ballots. Labour's rush to a postal ballot free-for-all seems is the problem that must be addressed - before the next general election please.

Ian, London,

Why is handling the electoral process so backward in this age of new technology?

Annie, Bath, UK

Yet another glaring instance, perhaps the most serious, of why we must have identity cards in this country. The system in use in Hong Kong is almost flawless. Why has no one in government (or in opposition) been here to take a look. Of course such a system would have to be implemented with efficiency and not left in the hands of the usual New Labour favourites and incompetents.

B.J. Carroll, Hong Kong, China

I'd be more worried about the corrupt postal voting...which i and many others think should be abolished. I was happy to continue doing it until all the courruption since Labour came to power, now i don't trust it one iota and have reverted back to the ballot box. As for Internet voting, forget it, the mind boggles at the corruption on that one. One evil hacker can chanage the whole direction of a country to the detriment of it, no thanks. I could never trust it.
I've always taken my Passport/Driving licence with me but they've never asked to see it so it won't be a problem for me. What a disgrace that someone has admitted our elections are now corrupt. Thanks Blair...this has only happened on your watch.

Samantha Jones, Bucks, England

this is the UK not some third world country ran by a robbing dictator ,get with the programme lads enough people miss the elections now don't put any more off
going to the polls or you ll all be out of jobs.

george william taylor, hull, uk

If it becomes a requirement to prove who you are before you can vote I won't ever vote again. Yet again it's a solution looking for a problem. Where's the evidence of electoral fraud on a scale that would necessitate such a draconian step?

Alan Tench, Middlesbrough, England

Do you need photo ID for postal voting?
No you do not all that happens is sinature verification and even that isnt working properly.
Political paries need to be stopped from filling in postal and proxy votes because it creates the impression of pressure tactics.

tim crowley, London,

Another argument for ID cards.

judy, Liverpool, england

i really don't understand this country sometimes ... how is needing ID to vote 'controversial' ... it's a pretty obvious thing to have in place. most civilised countries have it. it's about protecting everyone's one off right to a vote.

I was sent three ballot papers I didn't ask for last time that I could have filled out. Anyone who knows where I live could turn up at the polling booth and misuse my vote now. How is that secure?

You don't walk into selfridge's and expect to buy a new suit by telling them your name do you? So why should a vote be any different.

Ryan Heath, Whitechapel, London

This seems to be yet another example of where the whole process has not been thoroughly thought through and some lack of expertise in selecting and commissioning the necessary equipment.

The taxpayer is left feeling that if the Government employees and MPs were spending their own money there'd be a more successfully outcome on useless expenditure..

DM, Eastbourne, UK